Soakaways in older properties.
I have found soakaway weels in the two victorian semi detached house I have owned both covered with adome of bricks about two feet below soil level. In my present house the soakaway is about amter wide bricks not morter bonded about 14 feet deep when I took the dome offdry snad at the bottom I put a false 'bae' in three feet from the top old mutiwall platic over anold aluminum laddre let into the sides bricked up to half a meter above ground level and put a pondliner in protected with a thin layer of sand under the liner. Pond now twenty years old roof water runs in and then over the top down the sides,understandably now covered with green moss.A shrub has rooted in the side of the bricks will have to go soon as starting to lever the top layer of bricks appart. Birds daily bathe in the pond I guess they fel less exposed than in the ground level pond to my sworn enemies local cats
read more and respond »Posted 4 years ago by Chorisia in UK Do-It-Yourself Forum
