I'm on the verge of getting a house (or my other half is anyhow). It's a small semi, but with enough space for a decent sized extension. The plan is to extend to the side, the existing foul waste routes from the rear around the side and off at an angle to a newish sewage treatment plant(STP). The neighbouring semi's foul waste connects into ours at the rear (we will share our STP with next door - for now anyhow).
From what I can see, the bathroom sink/baths/showers and kitchen waste in both houses all feed into the foul waste. Neither house has seen a significant refurb in quite a while, so in our half we'll be gutting and refitting the interior (me doing the straightforward stuff as I'm no tradesman), replacing existing bathroom, adding another toilet /shower downstairs amongst other stuff.
At the rear there is a conservatory and in that floor is a manhole with big holes in it, by the smell it's for the foul waste. My questions:
- The foul waste pipes in the manhole look very shallow - no more that a foot to the base of the gully - is there a regulation about how deep they should be?
- If the foul waste needs to be deeper, would that mean replacement of next door's foul waste pipework as well?
- from reading around this forum it looks like you sometimes need to get permission to reroute sewage pipework, but does that only apply where foul waste feeds into public sewers?
- the STP apparently seems to cope with all the grey waste water it's taking (it's not a big volume tbf, and it's just had a service and the report looks fine) - anyone have long term experience with these?
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From what I can see, the bathroom sink/baths/showers and kitchen waste in both houses all feed into the foul waste. Neither house has seen a significant refurb in quite a while, so in our half we'll be gutting and refitting the interior (me doing the straightforward stuff as I'm no tradesman), replacing existing bathroom, adding another toilet /shower downstairs amongst other stuff.
At the rear there is a conservatory and in that floor is a manhole with big holes in it, by the smell it's for the foul waste. My questions:
- The foul waste pipes in the manhole look very shallow - no more that a foot to the base of the gully - is there a regulation about how deep they should be?
- If the foul waste needs to be deeper, would that mean replacement of next door's foul waste pipework as well?
- from reading around this forum it looks like you sometimes need to get permission to reroute sewage pipework, but does that only apply where foul waste feeds into public sewers?
- the STP apparently seems to cope with all the grey waste water it's taking (it's not a big volume tbf, and it's just had a service and the report looks fine) - anyone have long term experience with these?
t
