I've installed a waterproof canopy over my back door. I would quite like to add some half size guttering to it. The easiest thing to do would be to run the pipe straight into the existing waste pipe on the wall. However, my understanding is that you cannot divert rain water straight into the sewer. Am I correct or does this not apply to smallscale coverings. There is another downpipe just out of picture, which goes to the roof soak away, but connecting to this would be more complicated and unsightly.
Rain water in to sewer
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Technically you can't but who's gonna know or care? It's only small.
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How are you going to put guttering on that and not make it look pig ugly?
Fixed that for you.
Should have finished the sentence at "how are you going to put guttering on that?". And you're right, it'll look a mess.
And I think you'll find that it's a rain water pipe by the back door, not a soil pipe, so the sink outlets shouldn't be going into it. You'd be getting smells out of it, and if you are, then it needs dealing with.
Why do you say it's a surface water drain? Besides it could be a combined sewer, they're not that uncommon.
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