Drain - Sigh

[RaplhNotFelix]

After a bit of general advice. This is an outdoor drain the shower, kitchen sink and washing machine feed into.

Assuming this is not repairable and will have to be replaced? Anyone in the know on how much I could expect to pay?

Any help / advice would be much appreciated

 

[noseall]

After a bit of general advice. This is an outdoor drain the shower, kitchen sink and washing machine feed into.

Assuming this is not repairable and will have to be replaced? Anyone in the know on how much I could expect to pay?

Any help / advice would be much appreciated

What are we actually looking at there? A damaged gully or a waste?

Take a pic further away please.

 

[HERTS P&D]

I can't work it out either.

Andy

 

[accelerator]

Me neither!

 

[RaplhNotFelix]

Is a Gully. Apologies.

 

[noseall]

Is a Gully. Apologies.

Start at £250, if it's a simple job and you agree to fix it on a pro-rata basis. If the customer wanted a price, I might as much as double that, to cover for underground (unseen) issues.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Best guess is there's a hole/crack in the bottom of it.

It's an easy DIY job, parts would be about £40 including ready mix concrete.

 

[noseall]

It's an easy DIY job,

It is? Would you advise they use a mechanical breaker to chop it out?

parts would be about £40 including ready mix concrete.

£40 might buy you a gully and a bag of cement.
It won't buy you the ballast, or hire you a breaker, or hire you an angle grinder, or buy any fittings.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It is? Would you advise they use a mechanical breaker to chop it out?

£40 might buy you a gully and a bag of cement.
It won't buy you the ballast, or hire you a breaker, or hire you an angle grinder, or buy any fittings.

Yes, after isolating it from the sewage network. As the bottom has popped through it's probably sitting in soil anyway. A spade and hammer may be enough.

Perhaps a bit more than £40, not much though. Just a guess, I'm not going to write a parts list based on one over-zoomed photo. Obviously power tool hire not included, but I doubt you'd need any for this job. Any standard worn-out wood saw for cutting plastic pipes, any old files for chamfering/deburring edges. Hopefully the clay pipes could be pulled back to an existing joint.

Just trying to encourage DIY, as in the name of this forum. But it seems to be mostly about sitting in a chair and getting someone else to do everything these days, then moaning that they haven't done it properly.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Actually it's probably all plastic already, looking at the plastic gully.

Easy. Plug and play.

 

[noseall]

Just trying to encourage DIY, as in the name of this forum. But it seems to be mostly about sitting in a chair and getting someone else to do everything these days, then moaning that they haven't done it prproperly.

Yes, I get that.
Anything underground needs to be approached with caution. Throwing numbers about is meaningless, especially when they are way under par.
It may turn out to be an easy DIY fix or it could be his worst nightmare, especially if the pipes are surrounded in concrete or if there are gas and water pipes nearby.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

You're unlikely to damage any pipes with a spade.

I'm assuming common sense on the part of the person asking. Hopefully we don't need "Hot drink may be hot" type warnings on everything suggested here.

 

[noseall]

You're unlikely to damage any pipes with a spade.

Really? What makes you say that? And how will the OP remove any thickness of concrete with a spade, prey tell?

I'm assuming common sense on the part of the person asking

Is that before or after he's gone out with only £40 in his pocket when knee deep into a £100 job?

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I'd use my brain and work out what's what, sorry if that's a bit radical.

Judging from the damage, I doubt there's much concrete under or around it. Have a dig alongside it and see what's what, then decide what to do about it, rather than trying to work out a precise strategy based on one photo that shows very little.

 

[noseall]

Have a dig alongside it and see what's what

With a concrete spade?

rather than trying to work out a precise strategy based on one photo that shows very little.

Like this strategy...

It's an easy DIY job, parts would be about £40 including ready mix concrete.