If you re sat in your garden basking in the lovely sunshine the last thing you want to be interrupting your daydreams is nasty niffs coming from your drainage system.
Blocked gutter soakaway.
Even if you take good care of your wastewater treatment system external factors can come into play and wreak havoc on your soakaway.
Landlord staff admit knowing about since 2008 in writing finally cleared gutters as part of cyclical works in 2012 but the drains still back up in medium rainfall.
Or worse your dog rolling around in what looks like dirty water pooling.
A blocked soakaway is something none of us wish to encounter but it can happen to the best of us.
First reported in 2005.
Find out how to protect your soakaway from expensive blockages.
Rainwater soakaway blockages can be avoided by using the gutter mate diverter and filter.
Read on to find out why and what you need to do.
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The downpipes for the house are then run into the soakaway and then the top soil is replaced.
Is your soakaway not soaking away.
Click the link to see my blog on clearing the soakaway.
A hole is excavated and the crates are placed in and then filled with one of the above media.
The main problem people experience with soakaways is that they can become blocked up with silt leaves etc which have washed into the soakaway and can prevent the rain water being collected and percolated back into the soil.