Hello
Please could you shed some light on this ... a week ago we took up a couple of floorboards in our front room to take a look at the gas pipe beneath (to see where it ran). Unfortunately there seemed to be pooling of water in the floor beneath.
An Environmental Health officer came out, tested it, and pronounced it as sewage. There wasn't a lot of it, and it has since dried up and so far *crosses fingers* hasn't returned, but it is troubling to wonder where it came from.
We unblocked the main drain at the side of the house (it was seriously blocked) and we're hoping that in doing so we've rectified whatever problem that may have caused this, but we've no way of being certain.
What's puzzling our OH and myself is that in the foundation wall beneath that room (this wall is internal and is part of our kitchen wall also) is what seems to be a clay pipe, about 10-12cm in diameter. It doesn't go anywhere, it seems to be cut off at the wall, so that it's almost flush with it.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what it's for? We're wondering if it's linked to the sewage water getting into a house.
The house was built by the council, modernised in the 1970s, and is over 70 years old.
Thank you.
Please could you shed some light on this ... a week ago we took up a couple of floorboards in our front room to take a look at the gas pipe beneath (to see where it ran). Unfortunately there seemed to be pooling of water in the floor beneath.
An Environmental Health officer came out, tested it, and pronounced it as sewage. There wasn't a lot of it, and it has since dried up and so far *crosses fingers* hasn't returned, but it is troubling to wonder where it came from.
We unblocked the main drain at the side of the house (it was seriously blocked) and we're hoping that in doing so we've rectified whatever problem that may have caused this, but we've no way of being certain.
What's puzzling our OH and myself is that in the foundation wall beneath that room (this wall is internal and is part of our kitchen wall also) is what seems to be a clay pipe, about 10-12cm in diameter. It doesn't go anywhere, it seems to be cut off at the wall, so that it's almost flush with it.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what it's for? We're wondering if it's linked to the sewage water getting into a house.
The house was built by the council, modernised in the 1970s, and is over 70 years old.
Thank you.