drains

Please help, urgent! First post here, hoping someone can advise. We're planning a new WC in a garage, attached simplified sketch shows the plan. A builder we've been talking to has suggested a 110mm connection leading directly from the WC through the slab, then changing direction slightly to...

Hi, I want to install an en suite at the back of the house (WC and Shower), with another planned in the loft at a future date. In order to do this, I want to install a 4 inch down pipe onto the back of the house and join it into the current manhole/drain that is already there. I have a couple...

Help! We moved into a Victorian terraced house a year ago and have had an intermittent bad drain like smell ever since. It has been intermittent over the year but was bad when we moved in and again now. Some details on our house: - The kitchen was extended into the side return in 2008, and as...

Hi any idea where to get this cover for my septic tank or where I can get a new seal for this one as its a bit pooey smell in garden as its not sealed down.

Hi All, I am planning to do drains & pipework. please see the image below: Is that okay? is building control going to approve? I have read somewhere that every underground joint need an inspection chamber, is that correct?

Help!, I have had a problem with rats getting into my extension and scaring the other half! I have dug a trench along the edge (see pictures below) and there seems to be a large gaping hole around where the rain water down pipe goes underneath the extension. Im not a builder or anything but...

Hello there Can anyone see any problems with the drains plan below? (it is amended and updated from an earlier question) The question we aren't sure about re Building regs: Can the branch from the toilet join the vertical soil vent pipe? This join would be under the floor. "O" in Utility =...

Hello We are about to extend our kitchen. Single story extension. I am scratching my head to make a pan for the drains. We have limited room for external inspection chambers and rodding points as our property and new extension will sit on the boundary on 3 sides. - The new kitchen will...

Hey guys, I've brought a house with dodgey drains and I've had drain companies out but they dont seem to have answers. I've been trying to read up on schematics and designs of how downpipes on terrace houses were traditionally built and how they deal with rain water at the front of a 1900 mid...

Hi, I need some advice on a new bathroom in an 1870s 3 floor terrace house. We want to partition a room at the back of the house on the and install a Jack-and-Jill bathroom. We have a bathroom already on the ground floor, and the new bathroom will be 2 floors directly above it. The water pipes...

Hi, I've got a maybe 90 year old house, had collapsed drain previously, now I want to add extra fence panels to hide the bins and stop people putting their rubbish in. I'm getting a company to do it. Is there a chance the drains can be damaged by having the posts concreted in ?

Hi All, I'm planning a new extension and having viewed a good number of forums I've not been able to assure myself I know the best approach to my issue so i'm putting it out you guys for your advice please. Planning a wrap-around, ground floor extension which will cover the driveway up to the...

Hi, I have an old terrace shop front. The street is really old and there is no drain for the guttering. It is not an end of terrace. The front of the shop front faces north so there is a fair amount of green staining from the gutter. It is not dangerous but it is a nuisance. I understand there...

Hi, my neighbour is having an extension done. We have a semi detached property with shared guttering. The down pipe from the guttering used to go straight down in to my neighbours garden in to the gutter drain which was in their garden. They are now extending the house where the gutter drain is...

Hi, With the recent winds one of our fences decided to rip its self to pieces (was a mess), so this has been taken down. I am just about to start getting stuff in for a new fence but have a few questions as never come across this before! Basically as I took the fence down it appears there used...

Hi, have a ditch between my patio and back wall of the house, presumbly dug out by the previous owner, and filled in with shingle. Had a damp problem on the back wall, and removing some of the mud/shingle that was going above the DPC, and some of the render to let bricks breath seems to have...

We have removed a macerater from our ds loo and will be connecting with the inspection chamber in the garden. The setup currently looks like this. Pictures attached. I have notified BC but I haven’t been able to speak to anyone with it being Easter. The air admittance valve on the white pipe...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help with this! We have recently had a wall built around our front garden. In the front garden, there are two manhole covers - one rectangular and one circular. The rectangular one appears to be for waste water from our property? This being the...

Hi all, I seem to have a problem with the smell of sewage in my house and I believe it's from the soil pipe that runs internal into the house. The downstairs toilet is connected to this and the en suite is directly above it connecting to the same soil pipe. I used some insulation around where...

(Disclaimer - I am not a builder, so please excuse my lack of knowledge and possibly use of wrong terminology, etc.) We have had piling and a ring beam done, required because of the close proximity to a 5m deep drain (shown on the right of the plan running down side of house). The piles had to...