bruuuno 12:24 Wed Dec 13
Sewer leaking in garden/under house
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Who's responsibility is it to fix it? My guess is the sewer company
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Tomshardware
7:02 Sat Dec 16
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Smelly business.
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Beckton Bill
1:35 Sat Dec 16
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Your welcome mate.
Sounds like it could be a main sewer then. Give the water board a call and say its either a public sewer or an adopted sewer. They should sort it.
Just check there's no water leaks in the property first!
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bruuuno
1:03 Sat Dec 16
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Cheers for that Bill
Jut paid a brief visit to the gaff - there is a manhole cover connected to the property and it's coming out from around the manhole cover. Didn't get a chance to have a butchers but you can hear water rushing through the sewer so it's obviously a main hub that serves other properties not just mine
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Beckton Bill
10:36 Fri Dec 15
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Ok there are three types of of drain, Private, Adopted and Public.
Private - this only serves your property and is your responsibility until it leaves your boundary.
Adopted - in 2011 legislation changed and ANY drain that is shared by 2 or more people is now the responsibility of the sewerage undertaker. This includes any old Victorian drains running along the back of terraced properties. These sewers are not shown on the public map of sewers but are still the responsibility of the sewer company.
Public sewer - those shown on the public map of sewers that is the responsibility of the sewer undertaker. These are maintained and repaired by the sewer company.
Hope this helps!
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lowermarshhammer
9:52 Fri Dec 15
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Hopefully you won't have retarded neighbour's like mine who decided to build an extension / conservatory and floored over the inspection cover so it is now inaccessible unless they trash their floor.
IDIOTS
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lowermarshhammer
9:49 Fri Dec 15
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I'm off to the big for a dimp.
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lowermarshhammer
9:48 Fri Dec 15
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A set of sewer rods is cheaper than calling out a professional shit stirrer.
Probably is wet wipes that some.dickhead has chucked down the big.
Check if shit soup is backing up by asking to look under neighbour's sewer inspection covers.
Handy if you know exactly where the sewer turns a corner, likely block is at a right angle turn.
You might need to rid from a neighbour's inspection cover to get to the block.
Or I might just be talking shit.
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Russ of the BML
9:20 Fri Dec 15
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"COME ON YOU IAN'S!!"
"COME ON YOU IAN'S!!"
"COME ON YOU IAN'S!!"
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J.Riddle
1:23 Thu Dec 14
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The best way is to get the sewer company to admit liability, but you will have to kick up a stink.
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bruuuno
5:25 Wed Dec 13
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Not sure mate will post back in a few days when I'm at the property
Cheers
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,
5:02 Wed Dec 13
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How far below the cover is the pipe run [ generally speaking when you lift the cover you can see the upflow and downflow orifices and these are your blockage rodding access points ]?
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bruuuno
4:56 Wed Dec 13
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It's a big sewer with a manhole cover, it seems to be leaking out of a crack just under the surface
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,
4:51 Wed Dec 13
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More detail needed. Does the sewer serve only your property or does it carry other householders waste?
What are the symptoms of it leaking anyway?
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The old c wing
4:44 Wed Dec 13
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It’s nothing to do with it being in your garden. Loads of houses have public sewers running through their gardens so ignore anything about boundaries.
So it boils down to whether it’s your waste going to a public seeer or a public sewer itself causing the problem .
Some houses even have build over agreements on them, and have extended over public sewers.
Phone the water company and check the deeds and property history.of the house.
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BRANDED
3:57 Wed Dec 13
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Looks like you didn't need the forward slash
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Bouncing Ludo
3:45 Wed Dec 13
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If it happens to be a shared sewer with a neighbour then it becomes the water company's responsibility.
I had them out last week as the upstairs toilet was flushing slowly. Our waste pipe flows into a manhole in next doors garden and when I checked it was full of shit. I tried rodding it myself to no avail so gave the water company a call
As it turned out it was the main pot on the street that was blocked and they sorted it all out within 90 minutes of my call.
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Gavros
3:43 Wed Dec 13
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We are West Ian's claret and blue army!
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Spandex Sidney
3:38 Wed Dec 13
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Northern Sold 2:12 Wed Dec 13
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MATE of mine (MASSIVE Spurs lad) got his own drainage company.... shown us some of the fantastic videos he's got of his camera going up and down the sewers... some magnificent RAT shots
www.xhamster.com
BTW, Bigot is right, if it's in your garden it's going to be your cost BUT will probably be covered by buildings insurance. Happened to me when I lived in Upminster, in high July weather, fucking stink was unbearable. The insurance paid even though it was tree root ingress that had collapsed it (because I slipped the surveyor £20 to say it wasn't!)
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the_bigot
3:30 Wed Dec 13
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Water company's responsibility finishes at property boundary (waste and waste)
Regards
Ian West
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JonWHUFC
3:09 Wed Dec 13
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NS, if your mate got some rat shots he has way to far up the sewer, He is at the bowl stage of it son!!!!
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JonWHUFC
3:08 Wed Dec 13
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It is West Ian Dowie's responsibility. He served up enough sh!t for us for years.
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