Searching for the best rainwater storage and recycle that you can buy online? Here are some tricks to pick the best soakaway crates for drainage system. Nowadays, you can use soakaway crates to make a soakaway system. In this case, you have to wrap them in a permeable geotextile that allows the water to leak out into surrounding earth at a rate that is accepted by the ground. As a result of this, the ground can cope with all the rain water and surface without causing floors or creating stagnant water.
A soakaway is simply a hole dug into the ground, filled with rubble and coarse stone which allows surface water to percolate back into the earth close to where it falls. As part of a full drainage system it is an efficient and low environmental-impact way of dealing with surface water (also called runoff, rain water or storm water). There will be a pipe leading into the soakaway, from the area where there is excess water, like a gutter from a roof, a driveway drain or a French drain.
While we recommend your ground-worker conducts a soil percolation test and creates a set of calculations, there is an alternative method that will give you a rough idea of the soakaway size you’ll need: If your soil type is not too heavy/clay, you can assume that one crate (1000mm L x 500mm W x 400mm H) will be sufficient for ten sq metres of driveway or roof covering etc. Five crates are equal to 1 cubic metre, and one cubic metre is suitable for 50 square metres of surface area. So get your tape measure out and calculate the total surface area in square metres.
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