Hi all,
We're doing an extension across the back of our 1950's mid-terrace house.
We have a shared foul drain with our 1st neighbours.
They've done a similar extension to what we're doing but have their surface water run into a soak away. The trouble is that we've got clay soil so their soak away isn't the best and our garden gets boggy when there's rain (maybe from their soakaway?) so I really want to avoid having a soak away if possible.
The problem is the surface water pipe that goes into our 2nd neighbours garden is an old clay one and we've realised that it's blocked and probably broken somewhere along under the 2nd neighbours garden (the bit that we exposed in our garden has cracks in many places).
So we don't really want to connect our surface water to the pipes that run under the 2nd neighbours garden as that will be asking for trouble.
Can we run the surface water into the foul drain instead do you think? I can't tell if you can never run surface water into a foul drain or if you can as long as a soak away isn't possible.
On our plans the surface and foul water all run into the man hole drain.
I hope this makes sense! Thanks in advance.
We're doing an extension across the back of our 1950's mid-terrace house.
We have a shared foul drain with our 1st neighbours.
They've done a similar extension to what we're doing but have their surface water run into a soak away. The trouble is that we've got clay soil so their soak away isn't the best and our garden gets boggy when there's rain (maybe from their soakaway?) so I really want to avoid having a soak away if possible.
The problem is the surface water pipe that goes into our 2nd neighbours garden is an old clay one and we've realised that it's blocked and probably broken somewhere along under the 2nd neighbours garden (the bit that we exposed in our garden has cracks in many places).
So we don't really want to connect our surface water to the pipes that run under the 2nd neighbours garden as that will be asking for trouble.
Can we run the surface water into the foul drain instead do you think? I can't tell if you can never run surface water into a foul drain or if you can as long as a soak away isn't possible.
On our plans the surface and foul water all run into the man hole drain.
I hope this makes sense! Thanks in advance.