Beautiful cover

The sewer hatch does not have to be hidden, it can be made so attractive that instead of an annoying flaw you will get a real decoration of the landscape design. To do this, the lid is hand-painted, laid out with stones or mosaics, complemented with memorable inscriptions, fancy ornaments and forged details.

Interesting manhole covers are made to order, and for some people even become collectibles.

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Flower arrangement

If you like living plants and your estate is buried in flowers, let them distract attention from the septic tank. Equip it with a rim made of wood or stone, and install a flowerpot or a group of flower pots on top, break up a mini-flowerbed or build an unusual flower garden.

By adding stones and choosing decorative crops wisely, you can easily get a full-fledged artistic composition.

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Fake boulder or stump

Building hypermarkets and garden stores sell fake boulders and stumps, which are hollow structures and weigh little. At the same time, they look quite natural, so they easily fit into the landscape.

You can make an elegant and useful fake yourself if you have creative abilities. You will need a frame, burlap, cement mortar and waterproof paints.

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Decorative figure

If you want to get everything at once, opt for a ready-made lid in the form of a wooden, ceramic, metal or plastic sculpture. You can buy it there, in a specialized store, and installation will take a few minutes.

Decorative lids for septic tanks often have an original design – distinctive, non-trivial, with humor – so they become the highlight of the landscape.

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Artificial pond

By erecting a high border around the septic tank, for example, from gabion or cement, by installing a deep round container on the manhole cover and filling it with water, you will get your own mini-pond, and if you put in more effort, even a stream or fountain. All that remains is to add aquatic plants and pebbles to the creation so that it looks as natural and organic as possible.

The tank should be easy to drain and dismantle so that access to the septic tank remains open in case of a malfunction.

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Pebbles, earth or mulch

A flat manhole cover lying flush with the ground surface can be covered with fine-grained material and completely hidden from view. Crushed stone, sand, soil, tree bark will do – whatever you can find on the farm. This simple technique allows you to make the septic tank part of the landscape composition.

Such decorations look especially harmonious in dry streams and alpine slides. No one will even guess that there is a sewer system hidden under this beauty.

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Small architectural forms

A small functional or decorative structure can be placed on the manhole cover: a fake well or a water-filling column.

The main condition is mobility, so a rain barrel is the best choice; you only need to empty it and move it.

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