drainage

Hi all, I'm about to lay the 110mm soil pipe needed to route my kitchen sink, washing machine etc. to the main drain, before pouring the slab for the base of my new floor. I was planning on having bends vertically up through the slab in order to connect to 40mm waste pipe etc. Would welcome...

Having a conservatory installed ground works guys started digging foundations trench, as they got close to back wall of house the ground was found to be wet, they dug deeper and found flowing water up against the house foundations. Water board and council have carried out numerous checks to find...

I'm installing a 16kw air source heat pump next week, and need to put in a spot to anchor it. I'm wondering if people can comment on how they've installed them and what has worked? I'm aware this ASHP will put off a lot of water (60-100l a day) and there's an inlet for sewer/waste water (it's a...

Hi everyone, Keen newbie here taking on a garden project. I'm building a small retaining wall and a patio. Thinking about drainage I'm going to run slotted flexible pipe by the wall and now thinking about where to put the water. There is a storm drain inspection chamber with lots of spare...

Hi folks, anyone know what this is - it’s made of cast iron? There’s one at the boundary of a lot of properties in Aberdeen.(which all seem to have been built in the mid 1960s). I think it might be a sewer vent but would like confirmation as we’re widening the opening to our driveway. Thanks

I've demolished our old garage which has an inspection pit. The bottom is below the water line and in wet weather a pool of water forms. I want to fill it with the blocks from the garage and then pour cement to the top six inches so it's level with the floor. I have three questions: 1) Do I...

I've got a 4" deep timber frame on top of paving slabs ready to fill in before the artificial grass arrives. The area is 4m x 5.5m. I have a couple of questions: - Should I remove some or all of the paving slabs before filling the frame in? Is there any benefit/harm to keeping the slabs? - What...

Hi Our garden has a brick wall as part of a raised decking framework. We've recently discovered water pooling on the concrete floor in front of it, which seems to be slowly flowing from where the wall meets the concrete. There are a few (what seem to be) drainage tubes above the first brick...

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 All, Looking for some advice, I was looking to extend my drainage for a new conservatory however after breaking through a concrete floor and digging down I’ve noticed a foul smell. Having dug further there’s a lot of water around the foul drainage soil pipe (see photo). It doesn’t drain away...

What do you experts say? Grey water and rainwater drain into a gully that needs to come up by 15cm, it used to be underneath a concrete path that was used as a hopper, now I'm going to use gravel. Is there something I can buy off the shelf? I have an idea to use a 110 plastic hopper with a...

Hi guys, I’m building a single skin, 4 courses solid engineering brick retaining wall to retain a small garden lawn. I’ve left weep holes every 2nd brick at ground level and will backfill with 10mm pea gravel, but wanted thoughts on whether a polythene membrane should be put along the side of...

I want to make the front of my house more appealing. Attached are 2 photos of the front of my elevated house. In the photos you can see where I've removed sand and gravel left in pile. About 800 litres as I measured by filling 80 litre dustbin. What I'm left with is CLAY! Suggestions please...

Hey I moved into a new house last year and we discovered slabs in the garden covering what looks like open pipes going down at an angle (maybe 45 degrees) towards an extension. 0E69C63E-6341-4467-A077-70DDA16090E4 by BrummieLG posted 5 Mar 2021 at 9:36 PM We think these are rodding points...

Hi We have a rear extension with bi-fold doors and now need to fit our patio. We'd like to have the patio close to the level of the door step - i.e. higher than the "2 bricks" below damp course. I'm reading on the internet that I really need to install a soakaway 5m from the house, in the...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice / guidance on a project we are considering. We are considering putting a new utility and toilet space downstairs. In order to do this we would need to run the waste pipes backwards, circa 2 metres, to join the existing waste drainage which joining waste from...

We have a courtyard that is pretty much enclosed on 4 sides (with an opening for a path beside the fence). The space is 2.5m x 3.3m. The courtyard is surrounded by: back wall of garage. two walls of house fence (neighbours house is 1 foot behind fence) We are looking to pave this space. At...

Bit of a whiffy one this - not for the faint-hearted - maybe leave til later if you're about to have your dinner. Long story short - we noticed an eggy smell kept appearing in the kitchen and wondered if there was a problem with the drains. Still not sure we've got to the (ahem) bottom of that...

I have a 1.2 metre concrete retaining wall in my back garden that I would like to strengthen to keep it good for the forseeable future, and also make it a bit nicer to look at. Water is starting to come through the wall and affect the rendering, the wall also leans forwards by around 7cm at the...

The background: installing understairs WC wall is adjoining neighbours so drainage to run out to other side of house (about 4.5m to external wall, 6m to 4" stack) hanging sink with this trap https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/round-modern-chrome-basin-bottle-trap-tube-to-floor-pipe-set...