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I have just found out that the builder I bought my house from has unbelievably plumbed the soil pipe from the extension he built on the property in to a surface water soak away pit!
I therefore obviously need to urgently correct this but am trying to avoid a new connection directly in to the main sewer under the pavement and all the fees this brings with it, but there is not an immediately obvious existing soil pipe or manhole to connect to.
The extension is basically the whole left hand side of my house and has my kitchen downstairs, and an en suite upstairs (both at the front), with the outlet from both all running from the front of my house diagonally to the front centre of my drive where the soak away is.
The original soil pipe connections however are at the back right hand side of my house where the kitchen used to be and the family bathroom upstairs and utility room downstairs still are. This outlet goes in to a manhole down the right hand side of my house and then diagonally on to my neighbours side and we assume under his extension as he doesn't have any manholes or inspection chambers anywhere on the front of his house to give any clue where it runs so we could join up to it. Our neighbours on the other side have a manhole right in the middle of their tarmac drive (so not an option) and another about half way towards the back of our house just on the other side of the boundary fence, so would be flowing back up from where all my soil pipes exit my house.
Is there anyway of routing soil pipes along the front of my property and back up to either my existing manhole, or in to the one just over the boundary fence on my neighbours side (subject to them agreeing). Are there pump systems that would do this external to my house?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I therefore obviously need to urgently correct this but am trying to avoid a new connection directly in to the main sewer under the pavement and all the fees this brings with it, but there is not an immediately obvious existing soil pipe or manhole to connect to.
The extension is basically the whole left hand side of my house and has my kitchen downstairs, and an en suite upstairs (both at the front), with the outlet from both all running from the front of my house diagonally to the front centre of my drive where the soak away is.
The original soil pipe connections however are at the back right hand side of my house where the kitchen used to be and the family bathroom upstairs and utility room downstairs still are. This outlet goes in to a manhole down the right hand side of my house and then diagonally on to my neighbours side and we assume under his extension as he doesn't have any manholes or inspection chambers anywhere on the front of his house to give any clue where it runs so we could join up to it. Our neighbours on the other side have a manhole right in the middle of their tarmac drive (so not an option) and another about half way towards the back of our house just on the other side of the boundary fence, so would be flowing back up from where all my soil pipes exit my house.
Is there anyway of routing soil pipes along the front of my property and back up to either my existing manhole, or in to the one just over the boundary fence on my neighbours side (subject to them agreeing). Are there pump systems that would do this external to my house?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.