Access width?

[jumbletons]

Property with limited access, needs to install a 15-16p STP. 

 

Wants a Biodisc, which is 2.5m wide. Marsh is 2m, Harlequin 1.6m. 

 

Apart from choosing a narrow STP, what else can be done to allow installation with limited access?

 

Smaller machinery for digging and moving the STP into place? The site is behind a shrubbery/trees (yes, I know, not ideal, but it's not mine...) - could the STP be lifted over them?! 

 

What's the narrowest you can get away with? They already have a garden gate which must be nearly 1m wide. Just wondering how much more space is needed?

[Temp]

ChatGPT says a typical domestic STP weighs 150 to 500kg. Something like a telehandler should be able to lift that over a fence or hedge depending on the reach but you need someone who knows what they are doing. Can you get a telehandler close enough? perhaps rent a chain hoist at same time. An excavator might also be possible if it a very light STP but they are less capable than a telehandler when used as a crane . 

[Temp]

Can you "part" the hedge with ropes to make a gap so it doesn't have to be lifted so high? Even dig out some of the hedge and replace it later?

Edited 20 hours ago by Temp

[jumbletons]

11 hours ago, Temp said:

Can you "part" the hedge with ropes to make a gap so it doesn't have to be lifted so high? Even dig out some of the hedge and replace it later?

Thank you, these are really useful ideas and much appreciated. I think with a combination of a well chosen STP, a 'can-do' attitude (currently missing!) by the installer, some hedge/tree pruning, and some appropriate machinery, it should be possible to find, what, a 2m width space? 

 

Basically my neighbours are saying it's simply impossible and they HAVE to have access via my garden, and I disagree, but this is part of a much wider disagreement. 

[Kelvin]

It’s a big treatment plant. It’s their problem not yours. You don’t need to give them access if you don’t want to. If they need to hire a crane to get it in then that’s what they need to do if they want it in. It’s up to them to solve it not you. 
 

Where I used to live the neighbour’s across the way bought a bloody huge spa pool thing. Their house was in the middle with no access at the back due to a large oak tree. The only way to get it in was to hire a crane and lift it over two gardens into theirs. 

[jumbletons]

1 hour ago, Kelvin said:

It’s a big treatment plant. It’s their problem not yours. You don’t need to give them access if you don’t want to. If they need to hire a crane to get it in then that’s what they need to do if they want it in. It’s up to them to solve it not you. 
 

Where I used to live the neighbour’s across the way bought a bloody huge spa pool thing. Their house was in the middle with no access at the back due to a large oak tree. The only way to get it in was to hire a crane and lift it over two gardens into theirs. 

 

This is part of a wider dispute - they're saying that our existing easement for a shared system can ONLY continue IF I agree to allow unrestricted access via my garden. I've requested screening to safeguard kids who use my pool, and fencing to be replaced by professional instead of my neighbour, and they've said that's ludicrous, so I've declined access. They're now saying they simply can't put the STP in the yard without access via my garden. I am disputing that. There is a solution, they just don't want to see it, they'd rather accuse me of being unreasonable instead of just cutting down a holly tree or two 😆