Soakaways & Drainage Fields

Properly designed soakaways and drainage fields that disperse safely into the ground — across rural Lancashire and the North West.

A soakaway (or drainage field) is how a septic tank disperses treated liquid safely into the ground. Get it wrong — wrong size, wrong soil, wrong position — and you get standing water, smells and a system that fails. We design and install soakaways that actually work, sized to your property and proven against your ground conditions.

Percolation testing comes first

Before any soakaway goes in, we carry out a percolation test to measure how quickly your soil drains. That test determines whether a soakaway is viable at all, and if so, how big it needs to be. If your ground won’t take it — heavy clay, high water table, or too close to a watercourse — we’ll recommend a sewage treatment plant discharging to a watercourse instead.

Designed and built to standard

We design every drainage field to current building regulations, with the correct distances from boundaries, buildings, watercourses and water sources. Done right, a soakaway is a quiet, maintenance-free part of your system for years.

Our soakaway services

  • Percolation testing and ground assessment
  • Soakaway and drainage field design
  • Full installation and reinstatement
  • Replacement of failed or flooded soakaways
  • Advice on alternatives where ground conditions don’t suit
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