Self Build - Treatment Plant

Birroc

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The CoCo have asked us to install a treatment plant and percolation system in line with the EPA wastewater treatment guidelines. I assume this is just a normal condition these days in regards to septic tanks

Can anyone recommend a good treatment plant ? House has 3 bathrooms.
 
Loads out there but we went with the Bord Na Mona system as its semi-state and all that so the CoCo seem to think that's part of 'them' then ... ours did anyway so it was easier to propose than others perhaps - using the Bord na Mona Platinum treatment tank followed by Puraflo Peat filters followed by a raised percolation area so is a complicated solution to a complicated site - you should get away with just a platinmu treatment system if your perc. values are good anyway - no pref. for BnM - just the semi-state link seemed to push it through without question - mad ...
 
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We went with a septic, feeding BnM Puraflo peat filters, no problems to report.
 
We went with the EPS Bison treatment plant, didn't have any issues with planning. Main reasons we chose them were thatwe don't need a separate septic tank as well as the Bison. Cost wise it was just over 3k. Can't comment on performance as its not yet comissioned. Would be inclined to question any Council which showed a bias toward any company, that is the stuff of brown paper envelopes!
 
Septech from Shay Murtagh Ltd Raharney Co Westmeath. google them for details.
no affiliation to above
 
Loads of companies out there selling waste treatment plants. Many of the ones I looked at were very similar - just tanks that aerate the waste to enable bacteria to break it down.
Klargester and Envirocare - both owned by Kingspan are fairly well established . I used Envirocare because they were the only ones at the time who actually offered to come out and supervise installation. Their priice was the best at the time too.
Whatever you install - make sure you get it checked out and emptied once a year to ensure it works properly.
 
Just a quick note to advise my current situation with Envirocare who are meant to be Klargester in Ireland. My tank has been giving problems for years and packed up and after months and years of hasstle with the system (in house before I moved in), they arrived in May to inspect the problem and quickly advised that they would repair the fault. Previously refused to look at system as it was sold before Kingspan boughts the Irish rights. After months of promises and the engineer was capable of fixing the problems and after three times of having the tank cleared they refused to do the job. My own team will now do the job, but as for parts -- from Envirocare not a chance after waiting months despite all the promises in the world. Yesterday I contacted Klargester in the UK who have nothing to do with Envirocare or Kingspan and I ordered the parts and paid for them and should be with me on Monday morning. Basically if you want a Klargester Perculating system, try them in the UK and they have an agent in this country who has no ties with the other messers.
 
Have a BNM platnum 6 for the last 2 years, no problems, cost 6k at the time (heard that they have come down a bit) had to get a 5 year service contract as well.