Storm water installation

The work on the storm water drainage started on Monday. The pipework for the drainage was installed and we also arranged for the pipework from the driveway and water tank to be installed at the same time. It was far easier to do this now, at slab stage, rather than wait until the house was built.

We also got the drainage guys to dig out the storm water pit for us seeing as they had their digger there already.

The next day we started putting various things into the pit. First of all a layer of course river sand.

Next the geotextile fabric lined the pit and then the Ausdrain EnviroModules started to be layed.

A total of 72 modules were placed into the pit.

The filteration unit was then installed with the pipework connected to the EnviroModules. An overflow pipe was also connected to the modules. The geotextile fabric was then wrapped over the top of the modules.

Next the rest of the sand was poured around and over the modules and levelled off.

We then hired a mini earth mover to fill in the the pit with the pile of soil.

Here it is finished and levelled off. Glad thats over and done with. Looking forward to seeing the house get built now.