Guarantee for full house rewire

[jj4091]

Guttering downpipe shouldn't go into the main drains either. It should go into a soakaway. If the downpipe is correct so is the drain off for the paving.

If they have "combined " sewers as many areas do, then foul & surface water both drain into the same system.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

Trivial in the scheme of things but any supplier warranty on the boiler will be gone due to lack of servicing. The paving warranty may not be up to much either- you may find in the small print that the 10 years only applies to original purchaser. The drainage bit- have a chat with the neighbours & see where their rainwater goes, if its a clay area (where soakaways don't work) then the permeable surface argument gets a bit thin (plus if it was a refurb of existing hard standing then its all moot anyway)

 

[mrelliott]

That probably varies by location and over time. The houses around here (where soakaways become ponds in the space of a few days), built 60-odd years ago, have guttering downpipes connected to the drains and the sewers.

How do you find out whether they're going to the drains ? LA drainage search?

To my way of thinking, bungalows are all about accessibility. Yet near us, there are many of them on a hill, meaning they have steep driveways and steps up to the front door.
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Same here re steep and NARROW driveways and busy roads on hills. Most have cr..py little narrow steps at the front door and from kitchen into the garage. They sell like hot cakes if they're in any sort of a decent area. A lot are 1960's builds and must have been built for folks in their 60's not 80's, plus cars were a lot smaller then and a lot of couples didn't own 2.

 

[mrelliott]

If they have "combined " sewers as many areas do, then foul & surface water both drain into the same system.

Apologies. Have a head full of fluff ATM. The drain I posted the photo of is the one for bathroon sink/shower up the side of the house. There's a downpipe on the front corner of the property, but how much of the surface water run off will end up in there is debatable. None from the area that was the original drive. Pain in the proverbial. Have posted on the Planning forum. The local council website says anyone who's making any changes to an existing drive or creating new parking MUST contact them, whether PP is required subsequently or not. Be interesting if we contacted the council to get a license to extend the dropped kerb as it says they will ask for evidence that you spoke to the council about the changes to the drive before they even entertain an application. It gets better.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

How do you find out whether they're going to the drains ? LA drainage search?

I can tell by looking that at least one of my downpipes empties into the sewer because it is routed to the drain where all the grey water from the house goes. In fact there is a hopper half-way down it which the bathroom wastes run into.

i.e. when you look at my equivalent of this:

you'll see they grey water waste pipe from the kitchen and one of my gutter downpipes.


I'm not sure if the water from the downpipe at the front of the house goes into the house sewer, or the street surface water drain.

 

[winston1]

How long has the drive been done? If you "get away" without applying for planning permission for a number of years (not sure how many) the requirement lapses.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

AFAIK it's 4 years.

But it's worth finding out if PP was ever needed to renovate an existing paved area.

 

[mrelliott]

Trivial in the scheme of things but any supplier warranty on the boiler will be gone due to lack of servicing. The paving warranty may not be up to much either- you may find in the small print that the 10 years only applies to original purchaser. The drainage bit- have a chat with the neighbours & see where their rainwater goes, if its a clay area (where soakaways don't work) then the permeable surface argument gets a bit thin (plus if it was a refurb of existing hard standing then its all moot anyway)

Exactly! Madness when you've paid for a new combi'. It's their first house. Maybe they'll learn the hard way. Agree re block paving guarantee. Somewhere (in the legal searches I think) it says what the nature of the soils are. I'll have a look but don't think it's clay. Not sure the company actually understand what needs PP and what doesn't TBH!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

if its a clay area (where soakaways don't work) then the permeable surface argument gets a bit thin

The paving I had done over my front garden (before the time when PP was needed, and % restrictions came into force) probably lets a bit of water through, as it's block pavers on sand, but most of the surface water just runs off across the pavement and into the road.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

How long has the drive been done? If you "get away" without applying for planning permission for a number of years (not sure how many) the requirement lapses.

AFAIK it's 4 years.

 

[mrelliott]

How long has the drive been done? If you "get away" without applying for planning permission for a number of years (not sure how many) the requirement lapses.

done it in the last 2 years. Think I'll call the council. Don't want all this to come back and bit us on the proverbial when we sell. No mortgage involved with our purchase but recall a survey for a mortgage 15 years ago telling us we needed to remove the block paving bricks where they were touching the external wall of the house and put pea gravel in instead, and that bp was 2 bricks below the DP. BP at this property is higher and bang up against the external walls.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Trivial in the scheme of things but any supplier warranty on the boiler will be gone due to lack of servicing.

It may not have been transferable anyway. But it's only 2 years old - it would be worth at least asking the maker if they would re-instate the warranty after an inspection and service by one of their authorised installers.

 

[mrelliott]

It may not have been transferable anyway. But it's only 2 years old - it would be worth at least asking the maker if they would re-instate the warranty after an inspection and service by one of their authorised installers.

It's a Vaillant ecotec pro. Just found the "blurb" booklet online and they only guarantee it for 2 years and it was installed May 2016. One less thing to hassle about -kind of! Maybe we'll ask the seller to have it serviced and get a gas safety cert' or we can pay for one before we do the deal.

 

[John D v2.0]

That faq is a joke, "do you specialise in concrete driveways? Yes but we only do them on request"
So firstly block paving is not their specialism, and secondly why would they do a driveway without being asked to
So it kind of suggests they got the new trainee to make up the FAQ information and they probably don't care if it's right