Replaced gully - is it acceptable?

[Ivor Windybottom]

They do, I've replaced all ours with them...

Polypipe - Bottle Gully (With Anti-Splash Top) - Burdens

All products comply with BS4660:2000 and EN1401 -1.

burdens.co.uk

I got all mine at Burdens. Just check for cracks when collecting. But they do seem to crack after fitting anyway. Still stay intact though, even when cracked.

They're not stocked at any of the normal Screwfix/B&Q type places though. I guess they're too heavy and/or fragile.

 

[aveatry]

They do, I've replaced all ours with them...

Polypipe - Bottle Gully (With Anti-Splash Top) - Burdens

All products comply with BS4660:2000 and EN1401 -1.

burdens.co.uk

I got all mine at Burdens. Just check for cracks when collecting. But they do seem to crack after fitting anyway. Still stay intact though, even when cracked.

They're not stocked at any of the normal Screwfix/B&Q type places though. I guess they're too heavy and/or fragile.

Yeh that's sort of what I have got only its clay pipes and a much deeper concrete section built by hand - I actually rebuilt it many years ago as the original one was cracked a split and generally a mess.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I did something creative involving chopped up paving slabs on-edge bedded in concrete at a previous house.

Modern bathrooms and kitchens just don't use the concept of a waste pipe popping out of the wall into a grate. It all goes directly into the waste pipe within the building or on the outside of the back wall. Much cleaner, and silent too. I always listen to the tinkle outside in our old bathroom after using the basin. All will be going early next year when it gets replaced the modern way. Same with the kitchen.

But I still use bottle gullies for the rainwater, as the system is partly combined. So it needs a trap to keep smells in. If you directly couple rainwater to a combined system then all downpipes become sewage vent pipes, and they don't have seals in any joints so they're not airtight even below gutter level.

 

[aveatry]

I did something creative involving chopped up paving slabs on-edge bedded in concrete at a previous house.

I can visualise it - sounds neat and tidy.

 

[cdbe]

I have these, obviously I put the holes in myself but I think that's the idea. There's an outside tap above the pipes which hits the grating pretty well. I will of course be haunching or flaunching round it at some point.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've put all pipes through the covers including rainwater, after seeing all the water spraying straight across it and spewing all over the place when it rained heavily. The same when the washing machine empties.

It can be done while leaving the cover removable. Anything that could fit into the waste pipe definitely isn't big enough to block the gully.

Me too, including notching the cast-iron grids, to accept them, all except the rain water ones, but they don't cause much of an issue, leaves don't usually get in the gutters, to cause much of a problem.

 

[aveatry]

Me too, including notching the cast-iron grids, to accept them, all except the rain water ones, but they don't cause much of an issue, leaves don't usually get in the gutters, to cause much of a problem.

My problem with leaves is the ones blowing in at ground level.

 

[aveatry]

I have these, obviously I put the holes in myself but I think that's the idea. There's an outside tap above the pipes which hits the grating pretty well. I will of course be haunching or flaunching round it at some point.

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As mine is all lower I just incorporated the linier drain into the haunching --- those are very neat holes in your brick by the way.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

My problem with leaves is the ones blowing in at ground level.

Same here, so I bought, and fitted some of those cheap, plastic covers, cut to a tight fit around the pipes.

 

[aveatry]

Same here, so I bought, and fitted some of those cheap, plastic covers, cut to a tight fit around the pipes.

I made one out of flat sheet aluminium so it sort of matched the colour of the surrounding grey concrete slabs ---- cause i am like that

 

[noseall]

Poster #8 - It is perfectly acceptable to have a pipe discharge blow the grid

It is, but....

Some gullies have a back-inlets, some have an extended hopper to allow for off centre pipes ingress etc. The problem is with gullies with a pull-out sleeve and such things as solvent welded waste pipes, is cleaning out the trap (lifting the grid and pulling out the sleeve) can be a ball ache if waste pipes are obstructing. We've had to buy a compression 40mm or 32mm connectors in the past, whereby we've had to cut the solvent weld wastes and repair them with a removable connector.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Some gullies have a back-inlets, some have an extended hopper to allow for off centre pipes ingress etc. The problem is with gullies with a pull-out sleeve and such things as solvent welded waste pipes, is cleaning out the trap (lifting the grid and pulling out the sleeve) can be a ball ache if waste pipes are obstructing. We've had to buy a compression 40mm or 32mm connectors in the past, whereby we've had to cut the solvent weld wastes and repair them with a removable connector.

Not a problem here, mine are either push-fit at the ends, or the grid comes out with disturbing the pipes.

 

[noseall]

Not a problem here, mine are either push-fit at the ends, or the grid comes out with disturbing the pipes.

The one in the OP's image has a pull-out hopper and a pull-out sleeve though. And those pipes above it are solvent weld. The sleeve needs about 150mm of vertical travel, to be able to remove it.

 

[ree]

Poster #12,
Grates are not one-touch removable if pipes are going thro them.
Gulley and gulley drainage blocking is mostly caused by debris of various sizes, no matter the source, accumulating in the trap or drain.
Leaves from trees will certainly come down from the house gutters, and foliage leaves will be washed into the hopper.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

For the benefit of the OP - We tend to ignore the postings of poster #29, .....