Help Plumbing job gone wrong?????

[pinkchick226]

someone please help me, we have moved into a terraced house, with 2 double bedrooms and a dowstair loo (located after the kitchen in the back extention of the traditional terraced) we wanted to convert one of the double bedrooms to have an en suite, so we got a plumber friend to install it for us, all is good but we have realised after paying him that the waste pipe coming ffrom the toilet goes half way down the back wall of the house and joins a kind of bucket chaped catch thing, which the guttering around the house also joins into then they all go down one drain pipe! which results in everytime we flush the loo upstairs, the water and waste shoots out of the bucket shaped thing and all over our back window and garden. we are sure this should no happen?
we have a macerator installed but are pretty sure this does not enable the waste to just join a normal drain pipe and should be taken straight into the ground and the waste drains??

is this correct? someone help!

 

[seco services]

yes your right you can't connect a sani to a hopper on your guttering.
get the cowboy back or your money.

 

[Bahco]

The waste pipe coming from the toilet goes half way down the back wall of the house and joins a kind of bucket shaped catch thing, which the guttering around the house also joins

Can you post some pics

Does not sound promising though.

 

[pinkchick226]

sorry dont actually have any pics, it isnt a bucket as such, its a large square shaped collection container almost, that has 2 other pipes flowing into it, then they all filter down one piece of pipe to the drains

 

[Bahco]

Sounds like a hopper which should not have soil waste attached.

Threaten him with BCO if he does not rectify by plumbing into a stack.

 

[pinkchick226]

what is BCO? and thankyou for your help!

 

[giblets]

Local Council Building Control Officer.

 

[seco services]

i take it your house is about 1960's in which hoppers can accept grey water waste (basin / bath) but not sewerage.

 

[pinkchick226]

no our house is 1900's

 

[seco services]

as above you can have grey water into a hopper not sewerage.

 

[doitall]

Provided it goes into the main drain and not an soakaway

 

[seco services]

Provided it goes into the main drain and not an soakaway

i think we need both commenting on that question.



>no our house is 1900's

 

[doitall]

Provided it goes into the main drain and not an soakaway

i think we need both commenting on that question.



>no our house is 1900's

Rain water would have gone into a soakaway, which means no waste water including sinks, baths etc.

The macerator is is a big NoNo but we both know that

 

[seco services]

not in houses that old they didn't gutters went in the main drainage.

 

[doitall]

not in houses that old they didn't gutters went in the main drainage.

Not in my part of the country they didn't.

Shouldn't say that there's probably plenty that did.

Where I come from most never had main drains until the 50s