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Apart from the noise, the Tricel does have a large protruding green box which isn't very attractive and there are occasional whiffs of sewage if you stand next to it. It is positioned on a lawn so we could plant shrubs around it but it wouldn't fit so well in the garden scheme. It is mainly the humming that is the problem. I'm not sure how to place the pump somewhere else. I could unscrew the lid and have a look but I'm not confident about taking it apart. I've asked the guy who installed it to come back but he doesn't seem very enthusiastic. Do these things have settings? Perhaps it's on the maximum setting and could be turned down? Are the settings inside the device?

Thanks for the replies. Yes it seems that the Tricel sewage treatment plants with the pump above the ground in a green box makes it noisy. It's also not very attractive having that protruding from the lawn. Definitely a make to avoid! Not sure what to do as it's not going to be easy to dig it out and put a different one in, never mind the expense.

I'm interested to know whether you have solved the problem of your sewage treatment plant humming. We have just had a Tricel plant for 12 people installed at the bottom of the garden which is 50m from the house and the humming is very noticeable and annoying. The guy who installed it has simply said this is normal as it has electrical moving parts, but we were not expecting this level of noise and would not have agree to the system had we known. Is Tricel a bad make for noise? Friends nearby have a Klargester which you can only hear if you stand right next to it and even then it's almost inaudible. I can see from google research that there are non-electric silent makes such as Biorock and Clearwater,we are thinking of getting ours changed for one of these. The Tricel seems a waste of money!