Hi,
I have the downpipe from one side of my roof, which drops into the ground and drains water off into the gravel run of the main 4" sewer pipe from my house, at the moment it's all soil covered but I want to put a patio down on top, so thought I better properly sort out where the water goes rather than just having a soak away type affair which blocks up regularly.
There is a large inspection cover with 3 inlets coming in about 4-5 ft away from the downpipe, but no spare inlet in the chamber, the inspection chamber is about 3ft deep what I want to know is can I just cut a downpipe size hole into the side of the chamber about 1ft down and feed the downpipe into the side of the chamber? I assume I would need a u bend type of fixing at surface level to stop the smell of the drain coming up?
Not sure how else I get the surface water from the downpipe into the main sewer without having to replace the entire inspection chamber to enable more inlets??
Any ideas would be appreciated?
I have the downpipe from one side of my roof, which drops into the ground and drains water off into the gravel run of the main 4" sewer pipe from my house, at the moment it's all soil covered but I want to put a patio down on top, so thought I better properly sort out where the water goes rather than just having a soak away type affair which blocks up regularly.
There is a large inspection cover with 3 inlets coming in about 4-5 ft away from the downpipe, but no spare inlet in the chamber, the inspection chamber is about 3ft deep what I want to know is can I just cut a downpipe size hole into the side of the chamber about 1ft down and feed the downpipe into the side of the chamber? I assume I would need a u bend type of fixing at surface level to stop the smell of the drain coming up?
Not sure how else I get the surface water from the downpipe into the main sewer without having to replace the entire inspection chamber to enable more inlets??
Any ideas would be appreciated?