drainage

For the past few months we have had a bad smell in the corner of my son's downstairs playroom, seemingly coming from under the floor. The room next door to it is our kitchen, and the smell seems to come and go, but most prevalent when we run the sink tap for a while. We have 3 manholes on our...

Hi, First time posting, but I've got a problem with a drainage pipe. This is a picture of my sink drainage, currently blocked because the drain on the left keeps pushing silt. Now, the drain on the left I've no idea what it's for, as its not connected to anything (as far as I can tell, looks to...

Really stuck for a budget solution for our lawn. It´s a new build, we moved in as 2nd social housing tenants in July. Housing and developer not interested in doing anything, so we are on our own. Water pools worse bottom right - gravel board constantly black - but does pool all along the...

Looking to figure out how I can join these to the drainage that goes to the sewer. I guess I need to get a drainage trap like this , but not sure what else is needed to join the black pipe (shower) and grey pipe (sink and diswasher) The drainage pipe goes down into an elbow into the sewer...

I have a kitchen sink that is draining extremely slowly. It glugged for a while and drained, now just drains extra slow. Ive tried chemical unblock, plunger, a sink snake and Netflisk drain cleaner. I can only get so far with the last two because once the pipe goes outside theres a 90 degree...

Hi, my house sends all the downspouts directly underground with no grid or gully. A couple of them overflow at the minute when we get hard rain, but as they go direct into the ground I can’t tell where the blockage is. in all cases the drains should go to soakaways as we have a septic tank and...

I have an external submersible pump sitting in a 460mm dia chamber. The chamber has a standard cover which I remove whenever we flood and I manually drain water into an aco drain. I am looking for a permanent way of installing the pump Alongside the inspection chamber is a 110mm sewer line. Can...

Hey all, I have been tackling some of my exterior chores over the past couple of weeks and want to get all maintainance/repair jobs done before the nice weather so I can enjoy it without worrying about preparing for next winter. Anyway, out of my extremely long list of jobs to do, here are a...

Hey all, I have been tackling some of my exterior chores over the past couple of weeks and want to get all maintainance/repair jobs done before the nice weather so I can enjoy it without worrying about preparing for next winter. Anyway, out of my extremely long list of jobs to do, here are a...

Afternoon all, I don’t really have much knowledge of drainage/plumbing so need some advice. My house is a 4 bed detached house with 1 downstairs toilet. 2 upstairs en-suite shower rooms and 1 family bathroom. It is 12 years old and we bought it new. As it has only being 3 of us living in the...

Hi We've ordered a new kitchen sink cabinet with stainless sink. We've also ordered some side cabinets. Probably a simple question, but what horizontal height (from floor) should the hot, cold copper pipe supply pipes be?; plus the upstand height for white plastic drainage outlet pipe?. Must be...

Hi, I would like to relocate my kitchen in my Victorian terrace. The current kitchen is a standard galley kitchen in the rear extension. I would like to move it to the middle reception room just adjacent to the current kitchen. The services (hot/cold water) and drainage would be easy to form...

Hi guys, Digging a soakaway, initially dug to 2.5 meters deep - but after a month of testing it was not draining at all. Clay layer seems to go on forever, we have a hilly field to the side of the soakaway - theres lots of red clay very old land drain pipes which run across our property a...

Hi I have just had a block paving and sandstone patio job done and looks like I have been royally done. Everything falls towards the house. I now know it is a firm of travelers so the chances of getting them back is nil and every time I have called it has been my problem!!!. I believe gas...

Hi, I just got a new house that has some issue with damp on the front wall. I believe it's to do with a broken and blocked channel drain that leaks into the wall from broken render around it. The gutters for the property don't go directly into the channel either. Would replacing the current...

Hi there I’m new to this so thanks in advance for your help I have an outbuilding, double blocked insulated, but I think the dpm is either below or at the same level as the ground. I think there’s some dpm bridging which could be causing damp on the inside of the room. so the question is...

hi All, I had my bathroom done recently and we have renovated everything. We have changed the location of the toilette, shower and sink which means we had to do some plumbing jobs (drainage pipe has changed from original bathroom) we also have removed a wall that was separating the toilette...

Hello there. We purchased our house 2 years ago that was identified to have areas of damp, and I am now looking to see what I can do to rectify the situation. On inspection, the house has solid floors, but the DPC is 2 brick courses below the internal finished floor level!? With the top of...

Hello! I live in a 1918 terrace. I've had the downstairs bathroom moved to the front of the house upstairs with separate sewage and grey water pipes. The back extension will be a kitchen with a sink, washing machine and dishwasher. There's a downstairs toilet that flows into a cesspit that's...

Morning all, I'm in the process of laying a new patio up against the back of a house and I'm looking for some advice on drainage. I'm intending raise the ground level so finished patio hight will be a minimum step out the back of some french doors. Finished patio high will be 70mm below dpc...