Waste drain outdoors - what are my opions?

[Millwright]

Hi, wondering what my options are here to tidy this up? Some kind of sealed way of doing it or maybe some kind of gulley?

Thanks for looking.

 

[Scally-Ho]

You could drop the sink waste inside the unit and then exit at the lowest point possible into a back inlet gulley. Then you will have to find a matching brick for the one with the hole left in it, or fill in with toner tinted sand & cement.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

You already have a gully there. The Waste pipe needs extending to discharge below the grid but above the water level.

Cant tell where the Damp Course is in the brickwork, gully may not hurt to be lowered a bit, but not sure what sort of a job that would be unless you expose the pot and outgoing pipework.

 

[dal5band]

Yes - you need to cut a hole in the grid so the pipe goes a little below the grid. That will stop what looks like splashing on the wall.

 

[ChrisJP]

Actually it's difficult to see from the picture if there actually IS a gully beneath the plastic grid. If there is then the above advice is correct. If there isn't then presumably the waste is just discharging into the ground - or maybe some sort of crude soakaway?

 

[Millwright]

Hi all.

Yes it is discharging into a proper drain. I wasn't sure whether to try and take the pipe down past the grate like suggested, or build up some kind of brick/concrete drain. Maybe just keep it simple and send the pipe through the grate as suggested.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yes it is discharging into a proper drain.

Before progressing too far, check whether you have a combined sewage/grey water, and rainwater main drain, or whether the two are separate. Water authorities can become, rightfully, very upset if you mix the two when they are intended to be separate.

In your photo, there is what looks like a rainwater fall pipe on the left, and quite close to it, and maybe sharing it - that recently added grid, and grey water (sink?) drain.

 

[Millwright]

No that's a fence post to the left. The rainwater goes into soakaway.

 

[Millwright]

You can't polish a turd as they say, but this is how it went......

 

[Nige F]

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Nice work, thanks for showing us the end result. For future reference, you can get a concrete Gully Surround, which will save cutting those Edgings.

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The Supreme Concrete Gully Surround shields areas around any ground level gully, where soil or rainwater pipes meet the waste drain.

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