At the rear of our semi residential property, 1mt down for 1 and two storey, digger 1.5t scrapes against a hard lump of concrete - after much prying with the smaller bucket, a dive down into the trench discovers a 150mm porcelain pipe partly encased in concrete.
The pipe still looks intact, but fear it has been cracked.
We have continued digging around it - carefully, but now find a small amount of water in the trench has gathered (it does not smell foul).
We suspect it it is a sewer or drain - as the manhole exit - is in the direction of this pipe.
Our Thames Water property searches indicated no sewers in this area.
Digging out all the soil and trying to find the crack to sort it will be a right pain, the amount of water seeping seems small - does the damaged bit if pipe though need cutting off and a replacing.
The pipe still looks intact, but fear it has been cracked.
We have continued digging around it - carefully, but now find a small amount of water in the trench has gathered (it does not smell foul).
We suspect it it is a sewer or drain - as the manhole exit - is in the direction of this pipe.
Our Thames Water property searches indicated no sewers in this area.
Digging out all the soil and trying to find the crack to sort it will be a right pain, the amount of water seeping seems small - does the damaged bit if pipe though need cutting off and a replacing.