Shower waste into inspection chamber?
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Quite legal, but depends how you intend to do it. Certain methods may not comply with regs.
Ah ok so the plastic pipe will come out of an external wall and run into a pre drilled hole about 2 inches below the lid for the chamber - the pre drilled hole is for rain water -does this sound acceptable?
can you not go in to a foul gully or a soil stack? better off installing a new foul gully (since you want to dig for the shower waste pipe) and terminating the shower waste in to the new gully.
Sonething doesn't sound quite right. If the IC is part of the foul drainage system then there should be a gulley trap or similar in anything connecting to it preventing the escape of sewer gases.
If the chamber just has connections for rainwater and gutter downpipes without any traps, it could be part of a storm drain that may just end up in a soakaway pit in your garden - you don't want to send your shower waste down that!
Some older properties do have connections for both rainwater and sewage to the foul drains , but it is very unusual these days.
Can you elaborate on that please - i was under the impression a dual system was more modern.
Far from it; most water authorities will not allow new surface water connections to the foul drain system (they can no longer cope with the volume) even if that’s what you’ve currently got & it’s a breach of by-law not just Building Regs. Soak aways are required for surface water &, as TicklyT said, you don’t want to be discharging you shower water into that.
Thanks. I understand the difference between foul drainage (to sewer) and soakaway but was under the impression on more modern properties there was a cleanwater drain too, which just discharges to a river or similar - must have imagined that!
My house (1930 bungalow) has inspection chambers either side of the house, and they discharge both roof run-off and foul water. It has been that way since 1994 and was passed by BCO etc incidentally. I wonder if this was the dual system referred to.
My house (1930 bungalow) has inspection chambers either side of the house, and they discharge both roof run-off and foul water. It has been that way since 1994 and was passed by BCO etc incidentally. I wonder if this was the dual system referred to.
There are two Inspection chambers in the garden, it is a bungalow and the inspection chamber that I would need to discharge into is right next to the bathroom - inside the bathroom is a soil pipe boxed in, it goes down through the floor and does not come out at any point externally......hope this info helps?
Are you asking another question?
No, sorry. I still wasn't sure what the answer was to the original one? Was just trying to giver more info and find out weather the shower waste can go into said chamber...
Flush W.C., does water from flush appear (or can be heard) in said chamber? If yes, its a foul sewer, waste can be connected into it, if no, further investigations required.
Shower should (for best practice) discharge into a gulley or stub stack in turn connected to the chamber.
Shower should (for best practice) discharge into a gulley or stub stack in turn connected to the chamber.
Ok, thank-you for all your advice, I will try that. Thanks again.
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