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I am ignorant to some degree, but not totally clueless; hence, I started research. Regarding the landline - no, but they have a business address. Several people confirmed their work, but perhaps my patio project is above their expertise; that's my only explanation. I've sorted today a lot of...

Hi Hugh, thanks for the advice, I stopped the work today. By service I mean inspection chamber, it's black I have called the building regs inspector already, they will visit the property and suggest alterations. How could I have known what/where/when to do as a client, I expected the company I...

The property had already combined drainage systems before, and when I contacted the building regs inspector, he said it's fine as long as I don't connect new toilets, bathrooms, etc. As per the price I am paying around 7K for everything - digging, drainage, slabs. not sure if it's on the high...

The patio guys I've hired are incapable of delivering precise solutions, and what I am seeing is that we are ending up with 3 new gullies that are not gullies and have not got traps but are just straight into the pipe (1,2 and 4) number 3 is drain for the ACO; all pipes join into a service...

Thanks. I am unsure if we'll have enough space for the bottle gully to be installed. One of my options since I won't have traps is to use this at the service chamber; has anyone used it? I looked at their videos and some reviews it seems to be working well.

This seems like a good idea; I saw this trap but wasn't sure if it was going to work because of its awkward shape.

Yes, they all connect to the manhole. So, without a trap, I might expect "pleasant" to be what you are saying.

Is there any reason or just to slow the flow? That specific gully will collect only roof water and kitchen / washing grey water and nothing else. All the of the rain water will go into the aco's and from there back into the same drain all connecting into the service chamber and from there to...

The gully was low and at slab level, but last night, I realized I have three drains joining into one without a service chamber and asked them to install that today. we were already at the maximum fall for the drains, so we had to raise that gully about to make enough fall from what I see why my...

Regarding the brick box, that's what came to my mind, too but holding onto it as a last restort.

The mains are somewhere after my neighbour. The drain slope run towards the existing manhole (highest point).

Your assumption is correct, the house is 80-100 y/o and I am changing 90% of the drains as they were leaking and caused slight subsidence where the old gully was. I asked them to create an service (inspection) chamber so I can clean better if needed etc. but the issue here is the new slab's fall...

The new paving will be two bricks below DPC; surveyor said we have to take out some soil to let the airbricks breathe better, so we did that but then since the house is on a sloped street and the manhole is at the highest point in the garden (how stupid but..) I used the tile shop visualization...

the DPC is right above the gully where the render ends

Hello, We're laying new slabs in our garden, changed the drains and because of the levels and fall we have, the people I hired came up with that (image) so the gully there will stick almost entirely above slabs. The line in red shows where the slabs will come as height, all the water will be...

I might consider that, thanks for the rain splash info, I think that's very useful

I will find out if this is the case next Monday. I don't want to leave the row of stones as this was one of the problems that caused partial subsidence in addition to the cracked gully that I discovered. My goal is to divert all rain water into ACO drain with reverse slope from the house and...

The pipes will be from the time they have been first fitted. I've not seen any gas works done to this part of the city where we live, but thanks for the hint, I will check that too.

Here is better photo. The grey pipe is grey water I will re-do that pipe into a better gully.

Also, my second concern is if something has to be repaired or replaced, I have to lift up grouted tiles too?