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Installation instructions
ACO Stormbrixx Percolation System
Rainwater percolation on your land
Contents

What else do you need?

16 Basic elements

22 m Fleece (200 g/m)

20 Side walls

Jigsaw

16 Covers

Stanley knife

(stores a net rainwater volume of

Felt marker

approx. 3.3 m)

KG pipe SD/OD 110

2 Pipe adaptors (for rainwater inflow

Cover with air vents

Instruction videos
for assembling
ACO Stormbrixx

and ventilation)

Installation video and

further information about
ACO Stormbrixx

Excavating the trench

The basic elements can be combined in a

Black: dimensions of elements

square or a rectangle, as preferred (see next

Red: dimensions of trench

page). The first step is to dig out a trench of

the right shape.

0,61 m

1,46 1,66 m
varies for
installamit
befestigte Flche, eachEntlftung
tion bauseitiger
z. B. Betonsteinpflaster
0,61 m

Bettungsmaterial
Tragschicht

Abdeckung

Stormbrixx Sickerset

2,40 m

ca. 3,80 m

ca. 6,20 m

ca. 2,60 m

Zulauf
DN/OD 110

Auflager

5 cm
verdichtungsfhiger Baugrund
Example
1: ACO Stormbrixx infiltration system under a paved car parking stand 1)
Sauberkeitsschicht
Bedding material

Firm
surface
e.g.
Ventilation,
Entlftung mit
befestigte
Flche,
concrete
slabs
cover
to be
bauseitiger
z. B. Betonsteinpflaster
added
Abdeckung

Bettungsmaterial

Load-bearing layer

Tragschicht

35
rubber
35 cm
cmofSchotter

maintain a safe distance (approx. 1.5 times

the depth of the trench) from any neighbouring basement cellars which are not constructed to resist water pressure. The depth from

Stormbrixx
StormbrixxPercolation
Sickerset
System

Inlet
Zulauf
SD/OD
DN/OD 110
110

Auflager
Support
5 cm
5 cm
Sauberkeitsschicht
cleaning layer

Underground installation approach for ACO

1) 

Stormbrixx Percolation system: you must

Pipe
adaptor
Rohradapter
SD/OD
DN/OD 110
110

100

becompacted
10 cm of
10 cm verdichtungsstone-free,
permeable mateu. versickerungsfhiges
rialsteinfreies
whichcan be
compacted
Material
(F1)

Arbeitsraum

the bottom of the ACO Stormbrixx Percolation

system to the groundwater level must be at
least 1 m.

Substrate
which can be
compacted
verdichtungsfhiger
Baugrund
Working
space
Arbeitsraum

Take local climatic conditions into account. The

unit must be installed at a frost-free depth.

Example 2: ACO Stormbrixx infiltration system under a lawn 1)

Topsoil
Oberboden
Stone-free,
verdichtungsu. permeable
filller which can be
versickerungsfhiger
compacted
steinfreier
Fllboden (F1)
Stormbrixx
StormbrixxPercolation
Sickerset
System

Pipe
adaptor
Rohradapter
SD/OD
DN/OD110
110

Inlet
Zulauf
SD/OD 110
DN/OD
110

Auflager
Support
5 cm
5 cm
Sauberkeitsschicht
cleaning layer

Ventilation,
Entlftung mit
cover
to be
bauseitiger
added
Abdeckung

Lawn
Rasen

80

ca. 3,80 m

10 cm verdichtungsu. versickerungsfhiges
steinfreies Material (F1)

100

35 cm Schotter
2,40 m

4,80 m

Rohradapter
1,20 m
DN/OD
110

Substrate
which can be
compacted
verdichtungsfhiger
Baugrund
Working
space
Arbeitsraum

Oberboden
verdichtungs- u.

Rasen

Entlftung mit
bauseitiger
Abdeckung

Rohradapter
DN/OD 110

1,46 1,66 m
varies for
each installation

ACO Stormbrixx Percolation

system in a square trench

ACO Stormbrixx Percolation

system in a rectangular trench
1. tier
+ 2. tier
= one layer
2. tier

1. tier

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Montage der Grundelemente

Preparing the trench

1

The underlying ground under the excavated

Before starting to lay the basic elements you

The basic elements are to be set out on the

trench must be able to be compacted and to

must lay the fleece. The strips should overlap

geotextile as planned (in a rectangle or

absorb percolated water. The solid substrate

by at least 50 cm and there must be sufficient

square). A basic element consists of eight pil-

must be prepared so that it is free of stones,

length on the sides to allow the entire infiltrati-

lars, four with male and four with female con-

even and without gradient. Use your own equip-

on system to be wrapped.

nections.

ment to remove the excavated soil.

The basic elements should as far as possible

Cut out a hole as marked on the top of one of

be put in place already connected, as this

the basic elements for the pipe adaptor con-

improves the stability of the entire trench!

nector for two-way ventilation.

Cut out a hole for the pipe adaptor connector in

The outsides of the infiltration system must be

the side wall, for attaching the rainwater inlet. To

covered using the side walls, which are inser-

do this, cut along the markings in the lower end

ted into the openings in the basic elements and

of the side wall.

then click into place.

Tab clip

Positioning tab

When installing the side walls you must ensure

Inserting the covers to create a smooth sur-

that the positioning tab is inserted into the

face for the wrapping fleece.

base element first.

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Working with the Fleece

10

Now wrap the entire filtration system in the

The strips of fleece must overlap by at least

Use the holes you already sawed out of a side

fleece. This prevents the surrounding soil from

50 cm.

wall and on the top of a basic element. The

penetrating the block of infiltration units. The

pipe adaptor should now be held against the

fleece must be of geotextile robustness class

fleece and its inside diameter is marked on the

GRC 3, and can be purchased directly from a

fleece.

construction materials' supplier (200 g/m).

11

12

Within the marked circle you now draw and cut

The pipe adaptor is pushed, together with the

This side to be inserted into

a cross.

fleece, into the component until the pipe

the infiltration system!

adaptor's flange is lying flush against the component (= sand-proof).

Filling the trench

13

A pipe adaptor is then fitted on the side wall for

The stone-free infill material must be able to be

Depending on the type of installation, after the

compacted and must support infiltration, and is

sides of the infiltration system trench have

laid in layers of 30 cm all the way around the

been filled in, a cover of stone-free material

trench. The compaction may only be carried

which permits infiltration may be built up layer

out using medium compacting equipment.

by layer over the infiltration system.

Care must be taken when infilling and compac-

Please follow the installation diagrams and the

ting that the overlaps of the geotextile are not

indications of the different materials to be used

disturbed and pulled apart, and that the ACO

shown on the front page!

Stormbrixx percolation system is not damaged!

the rainwater inflow. The pipe connection adap-

Driving construction vehicles directly over the

tors can be used to connect KG pipes of nomi-

ACO Stormbrixx percolation system is not per-

nal diameter SD/OD 110. The second adaptor

mitted! Driving heavy construction vehicles

is used for the connector for the ventilation for

directly over the ACO Stormbrixx system is

the system (see drawings on previous page). A

only permitted when there is a compacted

cover for the ventilation pipe with ventilation

covering at least 100 cm thick.

DR 264 0V166 01/2013 Changes may occur

slits can be obtained directly from a building

supplies retailer.

ACO Tiefbau Vertrieb GmbH

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24755 Rendsburg
Am Ahlmannkai
24782 Bdelsdorf
Tel. 04331 354-500
Fax 04331 354-358

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97661 Bad Kissingen
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97723 Oberthulba
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