drain

I have a drain underneath my patio that rises to the surface at two points. There are two square drain vents covering the 100mm pipe. One of the pipes has a 90 degree elbow at the bottom and connects to the other on its way to the sewer. The pipe with the elbow is about a third full of water...

Hi - I am hoping somebody might be able to help me please. As you'll be able to see in the attached photos, I am getting water in brickwork above the DPM after heavy rain. The affected walls (to the left and right of my front door) are covered by a porch and it is not possible for rain water...

Hi all, new poster here and hoping for some advice. We have a manhole that blocks occasionally, so i periodically clear it to prevent that. When i do i notice a very weird formation of 'waste' and i wonder if anyone has experienced the same. Waste is building up only around only one of the...

Hello I was wondering how to go about draining down a boiler in a two storey house (ground and first floor). The boiler is located in a bedroom on the first floor. 4 radiators first floor, 3 radiators ground floor. Tubing to the ground floor radiators goes into the subfloor, in other words...

Hi all, before I contact the builders who built our house, I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me if we should have this much standing water in our shower drain hole/plug hole? You can see the level of the water on the picture. Got the new house in July. Thank you in advance

Hi I'm running a drain through the footing walls and i'm stuck on the section of the building regs that states "openings masked with rigid material and around the pipe should be compressible". Rigid Board I've heard people mention cement board but will this not perish after a few years sat in...

Hi, have a ditch between my patio and back wall of the house, presumbly dug out by the previous owner, and filled in with shingle. Had a damp problem on the back wall, and removing some of the mud/shingle that was going above the DPC, and some of the render to let bricks breath seems to have...

Hi I was hoping to pass a foul drainage pipe through the walls under the ground although not sure it's going to work now. As pictured, there is four courses of brick sat on on the concrete ring beam, then the block and beam floor will sit on this. I will need to lintel over the pipe, so that...

Good Afternoon All, Wondered if anyone might have some input on this, I've just replaced a short section of drain at the side of the house for the soil stack. The estate is circa 1930's onward combined sewer with original drains using VC pipe. This was the original situation, at some point in...

What's the best method to repair an area of concrete which has broken up? The area is where a drainage downpipe comes out. I think the idea by previous people was that the whole of the small backyard area would drain into the one rainwater drain and so they concreted everything they could see...

Hi I'm not much of a diy expert particularly on drainage. Had this drawing done a few months ago and now I have a waste for sink from plumber and the gutter from roof of extension (see photo descriptions). I had to get a new builder to finish off as original one dug hole and has since not...

Morning all, Any help from the experienced would be greatly appreciated. I installed a new UPVC back door (full glass pane) recently which has two slotted drain holes just below the drip bar. I think I should make it clear at this point that the drain holes are in the door, not the frame...

Hi, I am hoping for some advice. I am in the process of buying a house however I have noticed a potential issue with the neighbours rainwater runoff. The house I am buying has a narrow public pathway along the back of it. The neighbour has built an extension, the rainwater from the extension...

Afternoon All, I have a detached garage which I wish to have a waste pipe installed in for a dog grooming bath. The new build house has an internal soil stack in the corner closest to the garage. Plan is to dig up the garden alongside the garage and run a 6m long soil pipe just under the house...

Good Evening all, I have started to have a go at replacing a cracked Gully pot, and having exposed the pipework want to take a pause and just double check my next steps are going to be OK. So, for reference: This picture shows: Left hand small pipe - Something dodgily put a drain run that...

Ok, here is a head scratcher. I have a 3 storey house, pre 1937. To the rear is a lawn on the left and a patio on the right. The rear lane is 3m lower than the lawn so a pathway with steps down to lane level passes between the patio and the lawn. According to deeds the drain runs under this...

Hi all. Thanks for your time. We have a conservatory of around 5.45m x 2.5m at the back of our mid-terraced house. We are hoping to replace it with an extension stretching back a bit more (to 3.7m). However, the absence of a manhole/drain cover in our back garden, and the presence of them in my...

Hi, The decking in our back garden rotted and caved in, so we have decided to take it up and have a patio instead. We have a very sloping garden, and not much sun with a lot of algae growth, and after getting a few quotes for stone patios, we instead decided to install a gravel patio ourselves...

Hi Does anyone know how close foundations can be laid adjacent to an existing drain(foul). The drain is private and the foundations would run parallel to it. I understand that the foundations need to be laid below the bottom of the drain run which is fine Thanks

There is a rainwater down pipe at the back of our garage. In order for the water to go to a soakaway 5m away from the back of the house, the pipe to the soakaway will need to go over the shared sewer drain that runs along the back of us and our neighbour's house. Are there any issues with doing...