Temporary foul drainage: what's wrong with this plan....

[ToughButterCup]

I'd like to get our wet room functioning: I have got most of the 'gear' - and I think there's a good chance I can get hold of the rest of the  internal stuff I still need. So far so good.

 

Its the externals of the foul drainage to the digester that concerns me.

I've got most of the necessary bits: but its the bedding sand and shingle that I haven't got... and probably cant get either, though I keep trying.

 

The plan:

• Lay the pipes,
• make the connections (without the correct bedding or shingle cover)
• leaving the pipes exposed, 
• Test, make good if needed
• Use

I will be shuttering the trench and making sure that the trench is self-draining (in the case of heavy rain).

 

Then when everything gets back to normal, make good as necessary and ring the BCO lady for inspection; very very nice lady. ?‍?

 

 

 

[Big Jimbo]

18 minutes ago, AnonymousBosch said:

I'd like to get our wet room functioning: I have got most of the 'gear' - and I think there's a good chance I can get hold of the rest of the  internal stuff I still need. So far so good.

 

Its the externals of the foul drainage to the digester that concerns me.

I've got most of the necessary bits: but its the bedding sand and shingle that I haven't got... and probably cant get either, though I keep trying.

 

The plan:

• Lay the pipes,
• make the connections (without the correct bedding or shingle cover)
• leaving the pipes exposed, 
• Test, make good if needed
• Use

I will be shuttering the trench and making sure that the trench is self-draining (in the case of heavy rain).

 

Then when everything gets back to normal, make good as necessary and ring the BCO lady for inspection; very very nice lady. ?‍?

 

 

 

I would do exactly that. propping the poo pipe with bricks as ness to ensure fall.

[ProDave]

Make SURE the trench cannot fill with water.

 

Empty pipes FLOAT.  Ask me how I know

 

[Mike]

27 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Empty pipes FLOAT.

Great picture! Another reason to use clay pipes...

[ToughButterCup]

Thats exactly what our local retired SE said as he watched me struggling to stack a load of slippery plastic pipes. He visits the site regularly ("Most over-engineered house I've ever seen") 

He asked whether clay pipes are still available - since at his place there is a drainage problem. To my suprise you can still get them.

[PeterW]

Clay breaks easier than plastic, and if you want really tough plastic pipe then there are products such as PolySewer that is reinforced.

 

@AnonymousBosch you probably need to do the bedding first, then just put a bucket of bedding over the top of each joint once you have set your levels

[ToughButterCup]

Short of raiding the linen cupboard, I can't get any bedding. I have remnants of sharp sand, some 10mm pebbles and some soft sand.

 

Eyeing up random bags of building sand lying around the area. Bad man innit?

[BotusBuild]

Got any lumps of discarded concrete onsite that need breaking up? ?

[ToughButterCup]

*King brilliant.  Yer a star.