Mystery pipe under brick pathway

[pruchie]

The brick pathway at the side of my house has a few subsided bricks.

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• pruchie
• 14 Dec 2013
• 1

When I lifted the bricks I found this pipe. It seems to be half filled with sand.

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• pruchie
• 14 Dec 2013
• 1

Is this some sort of drainage? Should I unblock it?
Or should I just fill this up with sand and put the bricks back?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Looks like a drain or soakaway(could be redundant), if you have had no problems with regards to drainage, I would leave it as it is for now.
I guess the sand would be from when the blocks were laid.

 

[ntb]

It looks like the socket for a clothes line pole to me.

 

[pruchie]

Drainage has been fine outside.

One thing that might be related. When we recently had heavy downpour we also took up the carpet in the living room and one of the floorboards near the fireplace was damp.Since then the wood has dried.

It might be a coincidence but on the other side of the wall where this wet floorboard was is the pipe I've found under the paving. Could this be related?

 

[pruchie]

It looks like the socket for a clothes line pole to me.

Thanks. I think it's too big to be this. The hole is at least 3 inches wide?

 

[ntb]

Probably no then. If it is drainage, a downpipe would almost certainly have been connected to it in the past. Assuming any close by roof drains somewhere else nowdays I think you can safely ignore it.