Hello All,
A bit of advice if I may. Our house was build around 1985, our next door neighbors garage roof drains off into a soak away in our garden which was about 4 metres from the rear of our house. You can see where the soak away was as the lawn has sunk a little.
Now, we had a conservatory build, 6mtr wide across the back of the house and 4 metres out. The builder found the soak away when he was digging the foundations. He left the soakaway where it was and added a second pipe which takes the rainwater from our conservatory roof and fed that into the soakway too.
This soak away is now literally 6 inches from the footing of our conservatory and with our conversatory roof being 6mtr x 4mtr that is a lot of water to going into it.
My question is, will this soakaway be ok where it is or will it cause us any problems. I believe that building regs state 5m from property, but does this count in this case.
We have been in contact with the conservatory people about this and they said it is ok where it is and are not willing to relocate it.
What do you guys think, any advice please
Regards
Richard
A bit of advice if I may. Our house was build around 1985, our next door neighbors garage roof drains off into a soak away in our garden which was about 4 metres from the rear of our house. You can see where the soak away was as the lawn has sunk a little.
Now, we had a conservatory build, 6mtr wide across the back of the house and 4 metres out. The builder found the soak away when he was digging the foundations. He left the soakaway where it was and added a second pipe which takes the rainwater from our conservatory roof and fed that into the soakway too.
This soak away is now literally 6 inches from the footing of our conservatory and with our conversatory roof being 6mtr x 4mtr that is a lot of water to going into it.
My question is, will this soakaway be ok where it is or will it cause us any problems. I believe that building regs state 5m from property, but does this count in this case.
We have been in contact with the conservatory people about this and they said it is ok where it is and are not willing to relocate it.
What do you guys think, any advice please
Regards
Richard