drain

Hi, my house is Victorian, so all the pipe gutters etc are quite old. I’ve noticed some cracks in the drain gulley (hope this is the correct term)- see attached. I’m guessing I need to get these fixed but does anyone have any idea of the scale of the job? Is it a simple case of filling them in...

Hi, my neighbour is having an extension done. We have a semi detached property with shared guttering. The down pipe from the guttering used to go straight down in to my neighbours garden in to the gutter drain which was in their garden. They are now extending the house where the gutter drain is...

I have this at home: Glue and I need to solvent-weld these abs drain piping: pipe and elbow Can I avoid purchasing solvent cement? Or would that present some problem? Thanks.

Hello, I've got a Hoover frost-free fridge freezer, just over a year old, model HVBF5182WK. The drain hole in the bottom of the freezer is frozen/blocked and as a result the drain water is now forming ice under the bottom drawer. It's not a big problem and it should be an easy fix to...

Hi, I have a built up of drainage smell in the basement where we us to have are old toilet drainage before, basically the old drainage is no longer in use and still has water standing, its under the bay window in the basement. I can access it by removing a few bricks from inside the basement as...

Hi, I have a steep sloping drive, where it flattens slightly there’s a large manhole cover next to a drain grid, which is set higher, leaving a gap for muck and leaves to go down. It gets driven over so needs to be better really. Could anybody please tell me what’s the best way of sorting it ...

Hi! I live in rented accommodation and have an issue with my bath not draining quickly enough. I’ve taken off the trap and checked for blockages and there isn’t anything there. Also pushed a drain cleaner down the waste pipe and nothing obvious in the way. I did notice that the although the...

Hello, I have a dishwasher installed in a wall of a 120cm wide corridor. On the same wall there is gully and so there is a pipe going to the gully on the floor. See the picture. Now I need to move the dishwasher on the wall in front. So the pipe would cross the corridor and therefore it must...

I recently got ground floor piping extended to have drain (40mm leading to the stack as in the figure), hot and cold in a first floor room. Only the pipes are there, but I'd like to install a sink and a washing machine as from the (quite schematic) diagram. Note that the washing machine will...

Hi all, We've recently had a porch built which was mainly a DIY sort of project. All is well, guttering is up but ive stumbled upon a bizzare situation with our current gullie for the main roof. Not sure if this is correct. Essentially the main roof guttering is feeding into a gullie on the...

I have a drain underneath my patio that rises to the surface at two points. There are two square drain vents covering the 100mm pipe. One of the pipes has a 90 degree elbow at the bottom and connects to the other on its way to the sewer. The pipe with the elbow is about a third full of water...

Hi - I am hoping somebody might be able to help me please. As you'll be able to see in the attached photos, I am getting water in brickwork above the DPM after heavy rain. The affected walls (to the left and right of my front door) are covered by a porch and it is not possible for rain water...

Hi all, new poster here and hoping for some advice. We have a manhole that blocks occasionally, so i periodically clear it to prevent that. When i do i notice a very weird formation of 'waste' and i wonder if anyone has experienced the same. Waste is building up only around only one of the...

Hello I was wondering how to go about draining down a boiler in a two storey house (ground and first floor). The boiler is located in a bedroom on the first floor. 4 radiators first floor, 3 radiators ground floor. Tubing to the ground floor radiators goes into the subfloor, in other words...

Hi all, before I contact the builders who built our house, I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me if we should have this much standing water in our shower drain hole/plug hole? You can see the level of the water on the picture. Got the new house in July. Thank you in advance

Hi I'm running a drain through the footing walls and i'm stuck on the section of the building regs that states "openings masked with rigid material and around the pipe should be compressible". Rigid Board I've heard people mention cement board but will this not perish after a few years sat in...

Hi, have a ditch between my patio and back wall of the house, presumbly dug out by the previous owner, and filled in with shingle. Had a damp problem on the back wall, and removing some of the mud/shingle that was going above the DPC, and some of the render to let bricks breath seems to have...

Hi I was hoping to pass a foul drainage pipe through the walls under the ground although not sure it's going to work now. As pictured, there is four courses of brick sat on on the concrete ring beam, then the block and beam floor will sit on this. I will need to lintel over the pipe, so that...

Good Afternoon All, Wondered if anyone might have some input on this, I've just replaced a short section of drain at the side of the house for the soil stack. The estate is circa 1930's onward combined sewer with original drains using VC pipe. This was the original situation, at some point in...

What's the best method to repair an area of concrete which has broken up? The area is where a drainage downpipe comes out. I think the idea by previous people was that the whole of the small backyard area would drain into the one rainwater drain and so they concreted everything they could see...