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To answer the above: Drainage - yes, my sink gully/drain has been blocked twice in the last 4 months. I checked this yesterday and it was backed up just under half way so I had the rods down. Not ideal. Last time was July. It's an old property and part of a combined/shared system, so I am gonna...

Yeah, decking. A number of people have said rats now, including a gardener. Not sure what would attract them to mine, though one of the neighbours is... scruffy, shall we say. Operation get rid of rats then, I guess

I haven't.. is that a potential cause?

My back garden is 2/3 slate chippings, 1/3 decking (was like that when I got the keys 10 months back, no immediate plans to change). Over the last week and a half I've noticed two of these mysterious holes appear in the slate. I've tried to dig further to see if there's anything untoward but...

Hi all - twice in the last month during heavy rainfall/storms I've noticed a pool of water on the windowsill inside my back bedroom. Not a ridiculous amount, but enough for concern. The window inside has two standard weep holes on each part of the window (top and bottom) - one at either side...

Cheers for the replies. Turned out the gully was blocked (water 2/3 way up) as well as been covered in various stray objects. Had two goes at it - first day I had my hand down - pulling out all sorts including screws, glass, stones, and A LOT of lovely black gunk. Second session I had some...

What I also should have said (apologies), is that I had a couple of low roof gutters installed last week - one of which you see the downspout for in the picture - those those two decking screws, they were actually put in my the guy doing that, after cutting out the space for the downspout...

Hi all Newbie here and also a complete DIY novice (relatively new homeowner) - please go easy! I had two new gutters installed on low roofs last week, but it's opened up a can of worms and sent me down a rabbit hole - that can of worms being drainage access. The entire half of the back garden...