Bought house less than a year ago and discovered 3 months ago that the rest bend for the upstairs toilet had collapsed (salt glaze) under the house and soil stack was completely blocked.
Apparently previous owners had known about it and just kept flushing their unmentionables, all under the house!
Insurance would not cover it so had a guy round to look at it, he charged me £2K to dig and investigate the problem, once we discovered several years worth of unmentionables in the ground he felt it best not to keep digging to find the rest of the pipe to connect new plastic parts, but instead re-route a new restbend and pipe to the new manhole I had built for a downstairs toilet. Distance about 3 metres. He dug to it, backfilled the trench and cemented on top flush to patio. Have I been done?
Apparently previous owners had known about it and just kept flushing their unmentionables, all under the house!
Insurance would not cover it so had a guy round to look at it, he charged me £2K to dig and investigate the problem, once we discovered several years worth of unmentionables in the ground he felt it best not to keep digging to find the rest of the pipe to connect new plastic parts, but instead re-route a new restbend and pipe to the new manhole I had built for a downstairs toilet. Distance about 3 metres. He dug to it, backfilled the trench and cemented on top flush to patio. Have I been done?