Thanks for replies everyone. Issue has been identified. The down pipe runs into the ground and then through the garden under the pathway on the street where it then exits at a outlet in the curb into the road.
That pipe was blocked needing rodding and pressure blasting.
Some answers to the...
No there is an air gap the output pipe is smaller diameter and sits in the black pipe (bit like a washing machine waste fitting) near the boiler in the cupboard upstairs. If the rain water backed that far up it'd start to overflow into the cupboard before getting to the boiler.
I thought the same about the water backing up to the boiler so certainly make sense.
Ref the gutter, the rain water stops at mine and then drops into their gutter almost directly above their down pipe so it's not water flow from 2 directions crashing together on a vertical plain. Also there...
It's a combi Worcester Bosch ecostar....something or other. My mate is a gas Safe engineer so he's going to look at options for me once he's back off holiday. I don't admit to being an expert on such matters so looking on you fellow people for advice/guidance
Thanks, I don't think there is any chance that they could prevent that but they can stop my condenser entering it.
I just don't want to get into any legal issues (you hear expensive horror stories). I know darn well any future issues will be put on me.
The worst of this issue is I've never...
Hi all...newbie here. Sorry long winded opening post but stay with me...
11/11/18 I bought a terraced house. My house delivers 4 houses with of rain water which terminates at a small 6" down pipe vertically above the overlap of my neighbours gutter and downpipe (there is no other downpipe or...