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Sewerage device in the country: the easiest ways to drain waste

If water is supplied to the house at the dacha, then, of course, you need to think through the sewerage. You will not endure sewage in buckets. But since country houses are usually used only periodically, in spring and summer or on weekends, the owners are not interested in installing ultra-modern types of sewage, for example, biological treatment plants, etc. They are interested in the simplest options with simple installation and minimum costs. The main thing is that the sewage system is reliable, excludes the penetration of effluents into the fertile land and does not require special maintenance. We will figure out in what ways you can install the simplest sewage system in your country house.

General or separate sewerage: which is more profitable?

Before starting construction work, decide how you intend to discharge wastewater from the bathroom, kitchen and toilet - to one place or to different ones. The type of container into which the drains will flow will depend on this. If approached rationally, then the option of separate containers is more beneficial for the owners, because water from the kitchen, washing machine, shower, etc. can be released through a cesspool without a bottom into the ground. They do not pose a danger to the soil, because the bacteria have time to process the trapped effluents of washing powders, shampoos, etc.

Another thing - drains with feces. They should not be allowed into the ground, because you will create a lot of problems for yourself: you will violate the ecology of the earth, spoil the soil in the garden, and the worst thing is that these sewage will calmly fall into the groundwater and return with them back to the house as drinking water. For drains from the toilet, it is necessary to create an airtight cesspool or septic tank. In any case, it is not profitable for you if all the sewage from the house flows into this pit, because the container will fill up quickly, and you will often have to call a sewage truck or pump it out yourself with a special fecal pump and take it out for disposal.

Important! If the main source of drinking water in the country is your own well, then it is forbidden to install any sewer without a bottom!

Sewage for drains from the kitchen and washbasin

The simplest option for local sewage is for drains from the kitchen and washbasin. It is usually mounted if the toilet is made on the street, or the owners have installed a dry closet.

Since household drains are not considered harmful, it is enough to bring them out through the pipe system to the street, where a container without a bottom with filter material will be buried. Let's see how this can be done.

Option 1 - from a plastic can

If you live in the country only in the warm season, then the easiest way is to install a sewer from a plastic can and plastic pipes.

Let's consider how to make such sewerage in the country house step by step:

  1. Pick up a place on the street where you will dig in a can so that the distance from it to the point where the sewer pipe exits the foundation is no more than 4 m.
  2. Dig a hole a meter deep so that a can can fit freely there, and dig a ditch half a meter deep from it to the foundation.
  3. Fill the bottom of the hole with layers of sand and expanded clay. Drill holes at least 1 cm in diameter on the bottom and walls of the can (the more, the better). In the place where the neck of the can ends, drill a hole for the entrance where the pipe will be inserted (exactly in diameter!).
  4. Place the finished can in the hole.
  5. Lay pipes around the house so that the sewer begins under the washbasin, with the top of the riser located at a height of 40 cm from the floor. This is necessary to create a pipe slope of 4% for normal water flow.
  6. Fix the riser to the wall behind the washbasin with a clamp.
  7. When leading pipes through the foundation, it is best to drill a hole about 20 cm below ground level. Then in winter the pipes will not freeze if water stagnates in them.
  8. Make sure that the pipe at the exit from the house is higher than at the entrance to the can. So you will avoid stagnation of water in the pipes.
  9. If cutting a hole in the subfield does not work, you can make it above ground level. But it will be necessary to wrap the pipe (from the foundation to the entrance to the can) with heat-insulating material to protect it from frost.
  10. Check the created sewer for the quality of the water stack and the absence of leaks. To do this, turn on the water in the house and let it flow for a couple of minutes, while you yourself inspect all the knees at this time and make sure that the water has reached the can.
  11. If everything is in order, you can fill up the trench with the pipe. First, throw in 15 cm of sand, and then fill in the usual soil. Level the surface with a rake.
  12. A perforated can is filled up to the neck with gravel, expanded clay or river sand.
  13. Car tires are placed on top of the filter material. The exact number depends on the depth of the hole. They can fit 2-3. Be guided so that the last tire peeks out of the soil by about half.
  14. Fill the voids between them and the ground with soil and compact.
  15. Close the can with a lid, and place a sheet of tin, slate or a wooden shield on the top cover.

Option 2 - from car tires

This is exactly how sewerage is installed from automobile

tires, only they dig a hole a little deeper (about 2 meters) and instead of a can they lay it from the bottom to the top of the tire. The sewer pipe cuts at the level of the second tire from the top.

Note! To use such a sewer all year round, it is necessary to deepen a trench for the external outlet of pipes by about a meter and pack them in some kind of insulation.

Sealed cesspool from a finished container

For fecal sewage in the country, they create the most airtight sewerage device, because the health of the inhabitants of this area depends primarily on this. The easiest way is to find a large capacity. They are sometimes written off by chemical processing plants. However, a barrel from fuel and lubricants, a milk tanker or a car that says “Live Fish” is also suitable. If you cannot find such containers, you can buy a ready-made plastic sewer well.

Advice! It is best to select a barrel with a volume of 3 cubes, since the sewage machine will be able to pump it out at a time.

Choosing a place for a container

Fecal sewerage should not be located near the cottage itself. The smallest distance from the house is 9 meters, and from a well or well - 30 meters. It is more profitable to install it near the edge of the site, so that it is easier for transport to pump out without driving around the entire territory of the dacha.

It is advisable to position the sewer hatch so that it can be easily reached by the sewer truck along the path on the site, or located immediately near the entrance.

Digging a pit

Digging a hole for a barrel by hand is quite difficult, especially if the groundwater is high. Then the water will arrive faster than you dig. Order an excavator for these purposes. The size of the pit should be such that the barrel fits freely, and only the inlet of the hatch remains on the surface of the earth. At the same time, a slight slope towards the hatch is necessarily made at the bottom so that solid particles settle in this direction. Then it is easier for the hose of the sewer machine to grab them. Together with the pit, they dig a trench for laying external sewer pipes. Be sure to dig a trench so that there are no bends, because feces can get stuck in the places of turns and form traffic jams. If it does not work without turns, then the bending angle should not be more than 45º.

Tank installation

They lower the barrel into the pit with the help of a crane, and if there is none, they call on the help of familiar men and, like barge haulers on the Volga, tighten it with ropes. The hole for the sewer pipe to enter can be cut at the top until the barrel is tightened, or after it is installed in the pit. The container is not installed directly in the pit, but with a slight slope towards the hatch, so that it is easier to pump out solid particles from the bottom

Note. If you put not a septic tank, but some kind of barrel, then it must be coated on the outside with bituminous mastic or any other compound that is usually used to treat the bottom of cars.

Pipe laying

From the tank, they begin to lay pipes to the house, maintaining a slope of 4º, and then they carry out the internal wiring of the sewer. When the outer pipes are mounted, the trench is filled up. The voids around the container are filled with soil, ramming it. A reinforced concrete slab is placed on top, which will prevent the barrel from being pushed out of the frozen soil in winter. A concrete blind area is poured around the upper opening of the container and a sewer hatch is installed in it.

The entire cesspool is hidden underground, and only the manhole cover remains on the surface, through which wastewater will be pumped out.

When a local sewerage system for a summer residence is created, do not be too lazy to make a street toilet with your own hands. If you have large companies in the summer, then it is better to send them there as needed, thereby saving on capacity resources.