drain

Hi, The decking in our back garden rotted and caved in, so we have decided to take it up and have a patio instead. We have a very sloping garden, and not much sun with a lot of algae growth, and after getting a few quotes for stone patios, we instead decided to install a gravel patio ourselves...

Hi Does anyone know how close foundations can be laid adjacent to an existing drain(foul). The drain is private and the foundations would run parallel to it. I understand that the foundations need to be laid below the bottom of the drain run which is fine Thanks

There is a rainwater down pipe at the back of our garage. In order for the water to go to a soakaway 5m away from the back of the house, the pipe to the soakaway will need to go over the shared sewer drain that runs along the back of us and our neighbour's house. Are there any issues with doing...

I just bought a house which I'm not moving into yet and the boiler is a Myson Velaire 90/110 Pressure Jet oil boiler. It still works fine but I reckon it's about 20-30 years old and will need to be changed in due course. I need to drain down the water for winter (can't have it running on low...

Hi Good Morning, I got a bathtub drain leaking. As pictures shown, i tried with PT around thread and really tighten it hard but worry to break the plastic pipe, however it still leaks. Any other option that i should approach? Should use a paste instead? >Arrow pointing at the leaking stops.

Discovered a worrying hole just below the ground outside our 1928 house, just a small entrance but about 1foot deep by 1foot wide underneath. The house is built on clay, but the 'groundsure' report from 2 years ago when we purchased said the risk of subsidence in the area was very low. This...

Does anyone have any experience of this? Had this last week and remove some of the parts at the bottom and the filter and it "seemed" to work again for a while.. Last night, it came on again with E:15 error and some of the water leaked out of the front? This is obviously a draining issue.. as...

Hi, I live on the first floor of a four storey block of flats. My bath plug hole regularly gurgles (approximately once a day). Water doesn't comes up into the bath though I can see it bubbling away just below and it is often accompanied by a bad smell. Is this likely to be a problem that I...

Hi all, Our kitchen sink drains directly into an outside drain, via a plastic pipe that stops just above the drain grille (pictured). Since we moved in about 6 months ago, each time the sink drains then water escapes over the patio and appears to be soaking through the cracks, and we're...

Hi All I live in a semi, and we have a patio at the back of the house, what I noticed is that the part of the roof sloping backwards has downpipes connected to the patio roof. I also have another downpipe which meets the downpipe of the patio on the surface of the garden, when I lifted up some...

Hi all. I'm having a bit of a problem with my bathroom sink. Basically it is very slow draining, and takes up to a minute to drain a few centimetres of water. Obviously I assumed there was a blockage so used drain cleaner and a snake to try and clean it. This didn't work so I removed the p-trap...

Hello, The downpipes on our (recently moved into) house aren't connected to any drain pipes. I've managed to fix this at one side of the house, with help from diynot! I'm now tackling the other side and have dug down as you can see in the photo. No sign of any drain yet. My question is where's...

Hi, I recently bought a new Hoover 'frost-free' fridge freezer. In a nutshell, water drains from inside the fridge onto the floor at the back of the unit. Now everything appears to be working as it should (it's only been in use for a week) but looking at the back of the unit, it appears that...

Hey guys, I'm going to be installing underfloor heating with 10cm insulation, topped off with a 5cm screed. The area is just over 35sqm and will have a kitchen, so there will be electrics, water supply and a drain installed. For the drain to work, it obviously needs to be at a slope. The...

Hi, I have this situation in the drive way and the water stays on for hours after the medium tio heavy rain. I got no support from council as they put it on the builders and the builders can't be traced. The exact location is such that it impacts only my access to my car parked in my dedicated...

Our bathroom basin sink just refused yesterday morning to drain away. After pulling apart all the units I managed to get to the trap, cleaned all the gunk, I then pulled apart all the pipes elbows etc and cleaned huge amounts of goo. All that was left was a short run (1 metre) to the waste...