Kennels

[Moocher71 4,050]

I'm just wondering how to Make the drainage system for my kennel,I'm slowping the base to make it easy to wash down .

any ideas ?

[poxon 5,832]

Just have a aco drain (cheap as chips on eBay shop) at your lowest point that your base of your kennels runs to or is flowing to like the stuff they have on drive ways with the metal grids on top then run it to a soak away I think I remember you saying your kennels were 10x6 so your soak away you’re get away with 1m square by a meter or so deep as that area is never gonna produce enough water to to fill an flood it 

[Daniel cain 47,051]

aco channels at front of concrete base into back inlet gully then into the manhole on your foul line

[Moocher71 4,050]

1 hour ago, baker boy said:

Bit more info mate, some pics if possible

 

1 hour ago, baker boy said:

Bit more info mate, some pics if possible

I put some pics up once I get in .

[Moocher71 4,050]

52 minutes ago, poxon said:

Just have a aco drain (cheap as chips on eBay shop) at your lowest point that your base of your kennels runs to or is flowing to like the stuff they have on drive ways with the metal grids on top then run it to a soak away I think I remember you saying your kennels were 10x6 so your soak away you’re get away with 1m square by a meter or so deep as that area is never gonna produce enough water to to fill an flood it 

Yes that's the kind of thing I'm looking for ,the base is down and 15x7 ,kennel is 10x6.

ill look at getting aco drain ,

putting guttering along back of kennel to run water into tub ,

should be okay once done .

then get ferret court sorted out as looking bit tatty over the yrs .

atb

[Bosun11 537]

Remember a kennel design picture put up on here, was a cracker. It showed a really decent fall on the base for quicker drying and it sloping toward the kennel box, with the aco drain at the back. Making sure the kennels feet allow water to pass beneath.

The reason for this it that it drys quicker at the front, where dogs stand the most and you can clean and swill down from the front, which is easier.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

Good point about the drainage being at the rear Bosun, that’s something I’d definitely do next time I change my kennels.

[downsouth 7,816]

If your concrete is laid correctly and there is plenty of ventilation you dont need much fall and it should still dry out in no time.Shouldn't matter if your drains are at the front or back,99%of the water should go straight away just leaving the surface damp which will all dry evenly.If you end up with any part laying wetter than others then the concrete has been layed poorly.

[poxon 5,832]

That’s the base I done for my kennels mate it’s nothing special but works well enough I used reclaimed slabs that the edges of the slabs taper so I could point them up there layed on a heavy mixed screed with a good base of compacted hardcore underneath. my drainage is a soak away because my foul drainage is right down the garden my back garden as no access for machinery An would be to big a job to tap in an dig out a waist to run down there I’d have to go through the paths An the patios just to get down there before tapping in so settled for a soakaway I had to dig a trench about 20ft or so out on to the lawn we’re my soak away is the one I done was over kill for the job I worked out how big I’d need to do it for the area of flooring space plus roof space An doubled  it mine is 2m by just over 1.5 deep I used the big plastic soak way blocks that they use on building sites if there doing soak always donated off one of our building I get on from my mate who’s the ground worker on there I got all pipe,and pipe fittings free plus blocks for free it only really cost minimal to do the base to be honest with drainage as I called in favours for the wacker plate only thing I really payed for was screed an £1 for each slab plus a bit of mix to point up. My last kennel base was done the same about 13yrs ago in my last property but I had to pay full retail for that it was still working well the day I moved house