We have a 1901 terraced house with neighbours on both sides which have been converted to HMOs. The gutters from one of the houses drain into a shared down pipe and to the drain on our side.
About ten years ago the house to the left was converted to become shared housing and a new kitchen was put in on the first floor - the landlord at the time has put all waste water from that kitchen into the shared down pipe. Over the years we’ve had some drainage issues which have been sorted by the water pricier due to the shared drain issue (a blockage and then a complete collapse) - all done to no charge to ourselves but some internal damage with flooding in the basement but nothing too serious. We also had a major leak from that kitchen into our living rooms causing £1000s damage but that went through the insurance. That’s not relevant to this issue but gives an idea why we get a bit concerned about water ingress.
anyway we started to notice the outside wall was wet even though there’s not been any significant amount of rainfall recently. On checking the gutters we noticed that one of the gutters next door was leaking and every time the tenants use their sink etc it was just pouring down the external wall.
I’ve asked the landlord to fix it but he doesn’t seem in a rush so my questions are:
Is it allowed for kitchen waste to go i to a rainwater down pipe/drain?
Are we allowed to remove the pipe going into the downpipe on our property - the though is if it pours onto his front steps I’m sure he’d fix it immediately whilst he’s not bothered about it being on our side
Or is it our responsibility to fix?
About ten years ago the house to the left was converted to become shared housing and a new kitchen was put in on the first floor - the landlord at the time has put all waste water from that kitchen into the shared down pipe. Over the years we’ve had some drainage issues which have been sorted by the water pricier due to the shared drain issue (a blockage and then a complete collapse) - all done to no charge to ourselves but some internal damage with flooding in the basement but nothing too serious. We also had a major leak from that kitchen into our living rooms causing £1000s damage but that went through the insurance. That’s not relevant to this issue but gives an idea why we get a bit concerned about water ingress.
anyway we started to notice the outside wall was wet even though there’s not been any significant amount of rainfall recently. On checking the gutters we noticed that one of the gutters next door was leaking and every time the tenants use their sink etc it was just pouring down the external wall.
I’ve asked the landlord to fix it but he doesn’t seem in a rush so my questions are:
Is it allowed for kitchen waste to go i to a rainwater down pipe/drain?
Are we allowed to remove the pipe going into the downpipe on our property - the though is if it pours onto his front steps I’m sure he’d fix it immediately whilst he’s not bothered about it being on our side
Or is it our responsibility to fix?