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Hi guys So the damage and drama continues. The pipe starts under my patio steps. We’ve dug everything out. Found a brick chamber with the pipe leading from it. Council officers are adamant these gardens have buried land drainage pipes. No **** Sherlock! It’s obvious it’s shared pipes because...

Hi Hugh We poked a 10ft stick up the pipe and gunk came out, I panicked thought it was Pooh. ST came out yesterday, tested it for foul but it’s not. It’s just corroded weird soil. They’ve checked old maps and they think it’s historical drainage to possibly an old building before our houses...

Good idea I have a two man tent in shed that’s got some elastic sticks. Will have to dig some more trench space tomo night after work, put the sticks in the open pipe end. Haven’t been poking around or digging today Needed to get away from the destruction It’s making me mad and sad

Manhole bottom of my garden shows or clay feed in and out

Hi Hugh and guys My house is the end house of 4. Been there since 2004. Never had this flooding. Never noticed these cast iron pipes when I had the garden dug lawn laid. Noticed last year the right hand side looking down garden that the lawn was getting wet. The section on the right of the...

Hi guys The main run of pipe is heading in the direction of my house downpipe looking up towards my house. The section that’s branching off diagonal which is heading under the neighbour on my right is heading towards their surface pipe. But our live working surface water pipe is running along...

Pipe runs from under patio so it must run from the road to front garden to the back garden. Must be 1800’s sewer line.

Na It’s a long 6 ft cast iron pipes coming from under patio going going lawn straight line. At top of lawn it’s got small joints and another 6 ft pipe in a diagonal angle heading back towards the neighbours on the right. At the end of the lawn it’s at the end of 3 joined 6 ft pipes it joins into...

Severn Trent told me to dig so I got a metal detector a strong metal stick and my no bend spade and kept digging last few Fridays weekends. My soil is not clay under lawn it’s easy to dig but very muddy and slippy. I can’t find any photos online of any metal junction boxes like this. Any ideas...

Update Carried on digging and found the pipe that is going downhill middle of lawn is connected to an oblong junction box and pipe feeds to left side of lawn towards to boundary fence under my big palm tree and it’s leaking seeping water. Also found more pipes at top of lawn which looks like...

Hi Noth Na lol it’s like the council version of water world It’s been muddy since last summer got worse since autumn and since December it’s progressed. Then I dug a hole looking for the location problem. The whole filled up with water and it ran through this open ended pipe which flooded the...

Oh I found this photo from when neighbour had a team in to chop the conifers and a lilac tree shrub. The lilac tree was close by the back gate. Conifers was along the boundary. If you look closely zoom in I circled a section of photo. Not best quality but it looks like a small section of clay...

Hi Harry Thank you for reading my long post. I tried council highways planning department who were useless not interested. Severn Trent maps only show the sewer lateral flow on front of our terrace houses. We have dug out a random 6ft length and it’s definitely cast iron or steel. My theory is...

evening all sorry long post trying to give correct details I’m new here and I’m hoping someone here will know what these cast iron pipes are. And at the bottom of the bottom there’s a metal straight edge a bit bigger than the width of a brick. House deeds and Severn Trent water searches are...