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Drainage, soakaways and septic tanks in Kent

Surface water and foul drainage for gardens, council sites and commercial premises, from a single channel drain to a full septic tank installation.

We install and repair drainage across domestic gardens, council land and commercial sites. Every job starts the same way, by working out where the water is actually going, because putting a drain in the wrong place moves the problem rather than solving it.

For homeowners the usual complaints are standing water, a saturated lawn or a driveway that floods every time it rains. We install ACO channel drainage across driveways and patios, dig and build soakaways to take surface water away from the building, and install septic tanks where there is no mains drainage to connect into.

For councils and commercial clients the work runs from surface water schemes and repairs through to foul drainage, with the excavation, connection and reinstatement handled as one job.

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Scope

We find where the water is going before we dig.

How the job runs

Will a soakaway work in your ground?

Soakaways sit under Approved Document H of the Building Regulations, which sets minimum distances from buildings and boundaries. Sizing for anything serving more than a small area references BRE Digest 365. Whether the ground will take it is settled by a percolation test.

  1. 01

    Call received

    What the problem is, where it is, and who needs to approve.

  2. 02

    Crew mobilised

    The right operatives, plant and traffic management for the site.

  3. 03

    Open and make safe

    Excavation with services located, supported and protected.

  4. 04

    The work

    Drainage, soakaway or tank installed to the specification the job is signed off against.

  5. 05

    Reinstate

    Backfill in compacted layers, bound courses, surface flush.

  6. 06

    Handback

    Site clear, records done, ready for inspection.

A septic tank has to meet the binding rules.

Septic tanks fall under the Environment Agency general binding rules. A tank discharging to a ditch, stream or any watercourse is not compliant. The routes back to compliance are a treatment plant, a drainage field, or a connection to the public foul sewer.

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A team of professionals with the right tickets

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What do you need doing, and where?

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