Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

We have it more or less like that. A big barrel with pebbles inside and pebbles and fleece outside around it on both sides of the house buried. Has been working for many years. And if it should ever clog it gets cleaned.

That's just a soakaway, isn't it?

That's just a soakaway, isn't it?

A soakaway is basically a trench, a long pipe.
But the principle is the same.
It doesn’t really matter what you call it. If you get insurance approval, it’s an inexpensive alternative to costly cisterns.

Socialists can distribute other people's money, they are good at that. They just have no idea about performance and earning, the problem is when there is nothing left, nothing can be distributed anymore. That is why this government is also so disastrous. They simply subsidize everything, e.g. Intel with 10 billion, the electricity price or electric cars. Yes, I am also happy when I receive a mid five-figure amount as a gift, but who paid for this? Yes, the taxpayers and I certainly do not need it.

Housing subsidies are another matter for me, but even here only owners are favored. Renters are left behind.

A soakaway is basically a trench, a long pipe.
But the principle is the same.
It doesn’t really matter what you call it. If you are allowed to insure it, it is an affordable alternative to expensive cisterns.

For me, a soakaway is an underground trench filled with stones/gravel. Such a thing must necessarily be connected behind a cistern if the cistern overflows. A cistern for me is a water storage from which I can also take water again. Therefore, I don’t understand how a soakaway can be an alternative to a cistern since they both do something different (infiltration vs. storage).

To get back to the Aco channel: waste will probably end up in there most of the time, soil that you shake off your shoes, etc. I would definitely put some kind of filter in there, even if it’s just the classic sock.

A soakaway is for me an underground trench filled with stones/gravel. Such a soakaway must necessarily be installed behind a cistern when the cistern overflows. A cistern for me is a water storage from which I can also take something out again. Therefore, I don't understand how a soakaway can be an alternative to the cistern since they both do something different (infiltration vs. storage).

It is an alternative for the "disposal"/drainage of rainwater. It has to go somewhere. And if you think exclusively economically, the cistern will not be cost-effective.

If you have to build one, you just can't do otherwise