Can anyone offer any help or advice please? Lay person with no building knowledge!
For a month now we have had water seeping through our kitchen floor where it joins with a conservatory extension.
Initially it was a little pool that we could wipe with a tea towel. Recently its around 60 litres daily.
Always during the day never at night.
We've had 4 plumbers and two drain specialists inspect our downstairs with varying diagnoses. The water comes from the party wall side of our semidetached house where there are no water or drainage pipes. All manholes and drains are apparently working well and clean as a whistle.
We think we had a eureka moment yesterday when a mains plumbing specialist, poked around a drain under a downpipe next door over their fence.
The drain is a swamp of vegetation, grass, rubbish and there seems to be a film of detergent/drain cleaners over the top. The smell from this swamp is the same nasty odour coming through your floor and behind our kitchen cabinets.
We spoke to next doors Tennants and asked them to pop on their washing machine and low and behold 20 minutes after they did. Soapy water was flooding in our kitchen. Around 40 litres total.
It has been going on for a month now and out kitchen floor, now hall is totally saturated lifting all laminate tiles.
The issue is the landlord of the house next door doesn't agree that there is a problem on his side. He denies there is an issue with his drain saying its been inspected by a plumber and it drains ok.
Obviously we can't access his property without his permission or undergo any drain exploration. But the flooding is seriously ruining our house.
If there is an issue our side we have insurance that covers repairs but we can't diagnose the problem without getting down his drain.
Any advise on how to handle this and what to expect to expect in terms of repairs when the leak finally stops. Im some areas of our kitchen the water is moving up the walls.
For a month now we have had water seeping through our kitchen floor where it joins with a conservatory extension.
Initially it was a little pool that we could wipe with a tea towel. Recently its around 60 litres daily.
Always during the day never at night.
We've had 4 plumbers and two drain specialists inspect our downstairs with varying diagnoses. The water comes from the party wall side of our semidetached house where there are no water or drainage pipes. All manholes and drains are apparently working well and clean as a whistle.
We think we had a eureka moment yesterday when a mains plumbing specialist, poked around a drain under a downpipe next door over their fence.
The drain is a swamp of vegetation, grass, rubbish and there seems to be a film of detergent/drain cleaners over the top. The smell from this swamp is the same nasty odour coming through your floor and behind our kitchen cabinets.
We spoke to next doors Tennants and asked them to pop on their washing machine and low and behold 20 minutes after they did. Soapy water was flooding in our kitchen. Around 40 litres total.
It has been going on for a month now and out kitchen floor, now hall is totally saturated lifting all laminate tiles.
The issue is the landlord of the house next door doesn't agree that there is a problem on his side. He denies there is an issue with his drain saying its been inspected by a plumber and it drains ok.
Obviously we can't access his property without his permission or undergo any drain exploration. But the flooding is seriously ruining our house.
If there is an issue our side we have insurance that covers repairs but we can't diagnose the problem without getting down his drain.
Any advise on how to handle this and what to expect to expect in terms of repairs when the leak finally stops. Im some areas of our kitchen the water is moving up the walls.
