The cesspool of the tires itself

No farmland can do without a sump. Each owner builds sewers based on their means and capabilities. You can install an expensive septic tank, or mount a cesspool of reinforced concrete rings. There are many options, and they all involve cash costs.

Having a small suburban area, it is impractical to incur large waste on the arrangement of the cesspool. In this situation, you can do with improvised means, and these are old automobile tires. Such material for construction can always be found at a landfill, or ask a neighbor who has his own transport in the yard. In this article we will look at how to build a cesspool of tires with their own hands. You will also get some useful tips on its arrangement.

Choosing a location

Many summer residents, performing construction of the simplest cesspool, do not pay attention to its location. And this is in vain. Incorrectly located pit can bring a lot of problems to you and your neighbors. Therefore, the construction should comply with certain rules regarding its location:

1. The pit should be no closer than 5 m from the residential building, and 2 m to the fence.
2. If there is no bottom in the construction of the pit, then the distance to the water source is kept up to 30 m. With a hermetic bottom - up to 15 m.
3. Calculate the approximate volume of water discharged into the pit. If it is more than 1 m³ for a day, the bottom of the pit should be sealed, because the bacteria in the ground do not process a large amount of sewage, and groundwater contamination will occur.
4. When many chemical preparations are discharged, bacteria that recycle sewage are destroyed in the pit, so try to pour as little chemical waste as possible.
5. When making a sewer supply, try to make fewer turns and bends. Use PVC pipe O 110 mm.
6. If the sewage system will be used in winter, and it is located above the depth of soil freezing, it should be warmed.

Calculate the volume of the pit

Before building it is necessary to calculate the required volume of the cesspool.

On average, a person spends over a day from 200 liters of water, so multiply this number by the number of people living. Based on the fact that the processing of sewage by bacteria lasts for 3 days, then we multiply the resulting number by 3. So you calculated the volume of water that will be drained into the pit during the day. Now multiply the obtained number of liters by the number of days during which it will be necessary to pump out sewage. With this data in hand, it is easy to calculate the volume of the sump.

Tip! If the soil in your area absorbs water well, then the volume of the cesspool of tires may be less.

Tire installation

And here you come to the main point. After all the calculations and site preparation, begin construction of the drain hole.

• First of all, select the type of tires from which you will lay out the well. As you understand, the size of tires can be different, and you need to choose for yourself the best option. If the groundwater is high, it is advisable to use large diameter tires. Due to these dimensions, you will increase the volume of the pit, without going to groundwater. And if the groundwater level allows you to dig deep holes, you can use tires and smaller.
• With tires you decided and picked them up the right amount. Take the tool and proceed to earthworks. Put one of the tires on the place where the pit will be located. Make the markup slightly larger than its diameter and proceed to the extraction of the earth.
• Digging out the entire pit, take the drill and in the middle of the pit make a hole to connect with groundwater.

• Take a plastic pipe with a diameter of 110 mm. Measure 1 meter from the edge, and drill several holes in the sides of this piece. On top of the pipe wrap with a polymer mesh.
• Insert the finished pipe into the hole in the bottom of the pit so that the top is a ledge with a height of 1 m, with prepared holes. Cover the hole in the tube from above. As you understand, this pipe is designed for drainage, and the grid will not allow the pipe to clog with solid waste.
• After installing the pipe, pour a cushion of 10 cm high rubble at the bottom of the pit.
• At the ready bottom of the pit, you start to put the tires, while the upper part is slightly cut off with an electric jigsaw. This trick will help improve drainage.
• Each joint between tires, lubricated with silicone or bitumen, for sealing. And having reached the point of entry of the drain pipe, use an electric jigsaw to cut a hole in the tire. After inserting the pipe, be sure to seal the joint.
• The topmost tire should be above ground level and have a cap with a pipe for ventilation. The height of this pipe is 60 cm.
• The gap between the pit and the installed tires must be filled with soil.

That's basically all the work. Now you know how to make a pit of old tires.

Pumping out the pit

Pumping of the pit is performed by a cesspool machine. If the pit has a small volume, then you can deflate the drainage pump or otperpat bucket tied to a rope. And the best option is to colonize useful bacteria for the treatment of sewage, which will reduce the frequency of pumpings.

As you can see, the pit of tires is the fastest and cheapest option for your country house. The service life of her, of course, is not as long as that of other structures, but it will serve you for 15 years. For a complete picture of the order of work performed, you can watch the video presented at the end of the article.

Video

This video shows how to make a cesspool of tires to give: