Recent content by kate58

United Utilities have been out and cleared the blockage, everything is clear now. Done free of charge because we are pre 1937. Thanks for the help!!

Big job yeah? The smell is worse now , I think the water is still under the stairs and I can't get at it to clean it out, without taking the stairs out or maybe pump it out some way through the small vent in the stairs.

Could it still be a broken drain

Found the manway in neighbours garden, opened it up and it was completly full of what I wouldn't want to examine too closely, about a foot from the top and covering the drains. Obviously it's my neighbours responsibility, but should he contact the enviroment people or the council to pump out...

No rain here for a four days now but still getting water. I cleaned out the drains around the back of the house where the water seems to be coming from, with my hands as far as I could reach. There was a lot of sludge down there. It seems to have slowed a little or that could just be my...

I have water seeping in through my cellar. When it rains heavy or when using lots of domestic water. I have looked down the various outside drains and they maybe blocked. It is an old house and I have been advised that the rain water and the domestic water go into the same drain. Would rodding...