Condensate disposal

[Killy Bing]

Hi guys.

currently fitting a boiler but condensate is looking to be a pain

near to the outside of the flue is the rain water down pipe but it runs to a designated soak away and not combined drainage.

now the foul drainage for this place is a bio digester that then runs to the same soakaway as the rain water but its a pain to run too as the bio digester is in the basement and there isnt a good enough fall to run to it or any of its soil connections.

i was thinking of putting a soakaway with lime chippings but ground works are still being done for a while.

where do i stand running it to the rainwater and putting in backflow protection?
as its only going to the same place as it would going through the bio digester

the grounds already alkali enough around here without lime chippings!!

 

[arran197]

Is there no way of pumping it up and to the soil? Plenty of installations put the condense in the rainwater galley or downpipes, but if you get a condensafe I think you're actually allowed to.

 

[Killy Bing]

Is there no way of pumping it up and to the soil? Plenty of installations put the condense in the rainwater galley or downpipes, but if you get a condensafe I think you're actually allowed to.

The thing is even if i run it to the soil its still running to the same soak away!!!

 

[Killy Bing]

i'm now thinking tee'ing into the rainwater going along to a hopper, putting a stainless steel mesh in the bottom and filling up with limestone chips

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Surely a soak away is fine ? We have done a couple when it's the easiest/sensible option 🙂

 

[Killy Bing]

Surely a soak away is fine ? We have done a couple when it's the easiest/sensible option 🙂

i've done tons on oil boilers

around the building is ground works and then block paving all the way round.

currently the final level will be about 1.7 m higher than it is now!!

i think i'll just do a hopper, stainless steel mesh and make a lid for it, one bloody big inline neutraliser !

 

[Ermintrude]

Just leave a massive air gap

 

[GrahamM]

i'm now thinking tee'ing into the rainwater going along to a hopper, putting a stainless steel mesh in the bottom and filling up with limestone chips

But will this be terminating 0.5M from the building?

 

[Nostrum]

Stick it in a soak away and then tell them when the ground is up to level you can alter it to suit?

 

[Killy Bing]

But will this be terminating 0.5M from the building?

Rain water/biodigester soak away is about 12m away 🙂

 

[Ermintrude]

Ooh if it's an anaerobic one keep acidic conny away!

 

[Killy Bing]

Ooh if it's an anaerobic one keep acidic conny away!

Reading up on it now, looks like to the biodigester is a no go anyway, nukes the organisms that break down the turds!!

alrighty, will be the hopper idea. As a ground soakaway will end up under the block paving in the end and as there is another two boilers going in, all three can use the hopper!