Over 1.5 years back we had a side extension of our house. The neighbours had done the same side extension a few years back and was a little over the boundry line however as the neighbour agreed for us to share the wall, the builders built a slanted tiled room which drained water into a shared lead valley.
The problem is as follows -
This shared lead valley is used from both main roofs and the water only flows into a standard sized guttering box which is on my side of the roof.
This gutter continuously gets clogged with gung and the gutter over flows with water causing our internal wall to damp and paint to come off.
The builder has been back a few times and tried to put lead on one side of the gutter but when it rains hard it still over flows.
The builder says this is the best he can do and we need to simply regularly clean the gutter but at the moment, it seems regardless if we clean it on a daily basis, if it rains heavy it will still over flow and get blocked up.
The builder seems to be running out of ideas....
Any suggestions what we can do? We cannot have the water over flowing into the garden each time it rains and the bigger issue is the damping onto our internal wall.
Another issue is the the new slabs on the patio are already uneven and there is movement on some when you step on them.
I have flagged this up with the builder and he said as our house is an old 1980's house, movement is to be expected and there is no way round this apart from each time re-cementing it.
He has also advised the same applies to the cement falling off the walls e.g. the patio joins onto the back extension....
Is this true or am I being fobbed off?
The problem is as follows -
This shared lead valley is used from both main roofs and the water only flows into a standard sized guttering box which is on my side of the roof.
This gutter continuously gets clogged with gung and the gutter over flows with water causing our internal wall to damp and paint to come off.
The builder has been back a few times and tried to put lead on one side of the gutter but when it rains hard it still over flows.
The builder says this is the best he can do and we need to simply regularly clean the gutter but at the moment, it seems regardless if we clean it on a daily basis, if it rains heavy it will still over flow and get blocked up.
The builder seems to be running out of ideas....
Any suggestions what we can do? We cannot have the water over flowing into the garden each time it rains and the bigger issue is the damping onto our internal wall.
Another issue is the the new slabs on the patio are already uneven and there is movement on some when you step on them.
I have flagged this up with the builder and he said as our house is an old 1980's house, movement is to be expected and there is no way round this apart from each time re-cementing it.
He has also advised the same applies to the cement falling off the walls e.g. the patio joins onto the back extension....
Is this true or am I being fobbed off?