Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: SOAKWELLS - How easy are they to put in and install ? 96Jun 05, 2011 11:53 pm The depth is the only thing to worry about. 300mm plus. Re: SOAKWELLS - How easy are they to put in and install ? 97Jun 10, 2011 4:47 pm Fu or anyone else, a quick question. I need to install soakwells on the 18th/19th June and i was looking at doing it DIY through these guys: http://www.soakwellsolutions.com.au/diy.html My new house is in the city of cockburn and by their requirements my calculations show that i need 40 soakwell units!! http://www.allaboutsoakwells.com/counci ... ckburn.pdf This is going to blow my installation to over $2000. is this right? The soakwells are poly ones : 400x450x600 Roof Cover: 335 m2 Does 40 sound right or is it overkill. from my understanding, i thought i only needed one unit per downpipe. Is the figure higher because it is for concrete soakwells. Due to higher leaching rate of the poly soakwells would i need less of them? Re: SOAKWELLS - How easy are they to put in and install ? 98Jun 11, 2011 11:49 pm have I mentioned these in any of these threads? Flotank, flow cell? http://www.atlantiscorp.com.au/trade-products/flo-tank It gets no better than these. They will hold several tonne so can go under a drive. They will also allow more water out into the soil faster than any other form of drainage. Re: SOAKWELLS - How easy are they to put in and install ? 99Jun 12, 2011 3:27 am Fu what makes those ones better than the ones from soakwell solutions. I won't be having any soakwells under driveway. Also, is one poly soakwell per downpipe enough? Re: SOAKWELLS - How easy are they to put in and install ? 100Jun 12, 2011 8:46 pm You'd be pretty under gunned. Personally I'd be using tropical guttering and 100mm down pipes. I'd be interconnecting all the flo tanks. However not many homes have that available. Perth is in for a hell of a change. We will see far less rainfall (estimated to be between 30% and 60% less than now in the next 15-30 years). However we will see far greater rainfall rates. The storms of March 2010 and Feb this year will become more common however they were at the extreme end of the scale. So it makes sense to prepare for that and think ahead. Soakwell solutions use a whole variety of different types of soak wells. Atlantiscorp is the producer not the supplier of flo tanks to the best of my knowledge. Of course who ever is cheapest, but it's that style of tank/well that is what is really needed. DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair I mean, I install them/sell them for a living so I haven't done DIY, unless you count the first one I installed lol. (electrician by trade). Usually a 6-8 hour job for… 3 41546 That's a fantastic result! Happy you got it sorted out. cheers Simeon 6 8640 0 9818 |