Voulme of water form neighbours guttering

owen_cash

My neighbour’s house is one story higher than mine as his is the end of terrace house.

At the front of house, half of his gutter flows to a down pipe into mine. But for a while now with heavy rain it my guttering can't handle the volume of rain and it overflows down brickwork and front of house. It's caused damage to window frame and stained brickwork.

Am I in a position to ask him to reroute into his guttering around a bay window the same as the other side of gutter does?

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Mr_BOOMBASTIC

You could buy a rain water pipe 90 degree bend get a ladder climb up and put it on the bottom of that small length of pipe that drops from there house to yours and point it back into there boundry, problem solved.

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Is there a near by rain water pipe as they could branch directly into the dropper and not just discharge into your gutter.

usignuolo

I had a similar problem in a previous house (which was a terrace). When I walked up and down outside and studied the guttering, I realised a house further up the terrace had, at some point, removed its downpipe, so mine was taking the full burden of the water for twice as many houses as the rest.

Over time this had weakened the guttering on my section of roof so it had sunk where it met the down pipe and water spilled over at that point. Also it meant my guttering was getting blocked with sludge and leaves etc which collected in the "hollow".

I suggest you contact your neighbour when it is next raining hard and ask him to take a look with you so he knows why you are tackling it. Then you need get a competent roofer to analyse the problem and suggest a solution. You could film it on your camera or phone (if you have a digital one) so that you can show the roofer the problem in case it is not raining so hard when he comes round the first time.

Vibrant

The roof area supplying the guttering doesn't look very big, so I would think that the gutter has become blocked. Nip up and have a look, or get a handy person (very PC) to look for you.
It's hard to tell from the picture, but is the guttering the round, or square type. If square it will definitely be filled with detritus, as the square is very prone to clogging.

owen_cash

Guttering is clear; the downpipe from neighbours is from approximately 35% of his roof. A roofer has said that this is the issue and can't touch neighbours guttering without his consent. Neighbour is the landlord and lives away, has seven students living there and doesn't return my calls to get issue sorted….

thebaldwindowfitter

is there a gutter on your neighbours bay window if so turn the gutter round and let him have the water draining onto his roof .it also looks like there is a downpipe missing fromyou neighbours which would of gone down between the 2 windows.the roof will be taking a lot of water it is taking water off the pedement roof above the top windows next door the water from this roof if you draw a line done will hit were your arrow is swirl in the gutter then overflow over top of yours .i would also check the lead valley on the neighbours roof making sur its not blocked

27col

If there are houses in the road with a similar arrangement I would have a look to see what their gutter arrangements are. Going by the picture I would not be a bit surprised if there had been a downpipe between the two houses at one time. You do not have a down pipe nearby so the water is having to flow around your bay to a downpipe on the other side. This cannot be a very satisfactory arrangement, even if your gutter was flowing freely. They have a cheek draining into your gutter, its not as if you both have a shared fascia as would be normal in a terrace. The two systems are completely separate. I agree with a6windows, I reckon that someone has removed the downpipe at some time just to pretty up their frontage.

thebaldwindowfitter

you can touch your neighbours guttering if it is causing damage to your property take pictures of the damage to wall wall.i am also thinking there would have been coping stones like on the pediment on the party wall.yo seem to have an overflow problem where the gutter meets the bay .can you post a picture up of the front of both houses and a neighbour similiar to next door with pediment so we can see how others are drained