Hello,
New to this forum, so hope this is the best place for this post. (Please let me know if another would be better!)
I've had a problem with our outside drain, visible on these two pictures:
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0035.jpg
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0033.jpg
You can see that (a) there is a hole down the side of the drain just behind the grid cover, meaning that waste water was going straight into the ground/foundations and (b) the render on the left hand wall is damp and coming away.
Now, we've just had some work done on this drain (along with some other work) but I'm not sure about some aspects of it. Here are links to the "after" pictures:
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0021.jpg
In the above, you can see that the drain is blocked (probably with material from the repointing we had done at the same time). However, the concrete surround has been installed so that I can no longer remove either the pipes or the grid cover in order to unblock it!
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0022.jpg
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0020.jpg
In the above 2 pictures, you can see the damaged render has been removed and you can see the slate damp proof course. There is also still a hole at the top of the picture meaning that any overflow waste water will STILL be draining into the foundations. And, of course, if there is heavy rainfall or if we run a bath, then the water will almost certainly rise above the level of the DPC.
The interior side of this wall DOES suffer damp, which was the problem we were trying to sort in the first place. I'm not sure this isn't worse than before...
Any advice on how best to proceed from here? The people who did the work are coming back today to take a look.
New to this forum, so hope this is the best place for this post. (Please let me know if another would be better!)
I've had a problem with our outside drain, visible on these two pictures:
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0035.jpg
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0033.jpg
You can see that (a) there is a hole down the side of the drain just behind the grid cover, meaning that waste water was going straight into the ground/foundations and (b) the render on the left hand wall is damp and coming away.
Now, we've just had some work done on this drain (along with some other work) but I'm not sure about some aspects of it. Here are links to the "after" pictures:
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0021.jpg
In the above, you can see that the drain is blocked (probably with material from the repointing we had done at the same time). However, the concrete surround has been installed so that I can no longer remove either the pipes or the grid cover in order to unblock it!
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0022.jpg
http://yoyo.org/~den/img/lansdowne/IMAG0020.jpg
In the above 2 pictures, you can see the damaged render has been removed and you can see the slate damp proof course. There is also still a hole at the top of the picture meaning that any overflow waste water will STILL be draining into the foundations. And, of course, if there is heavy rainfall or if we run a bath, then the water will almost certainly rise above the level of the DPC.
The interior side of this wall DOES suffer damp, which was the problem we were trying to sort in the first place. I'm not sure this isn't worse than before...
Any advice on how best to proceed from here? The people who did the work are coming back today to take a look.