Building over a drain/sewer inspection chamber

babyblooz

Wow! That is such useful information to know! I am going to make a note of all this and then when I need to get in touch with our utility company I know just what to quote at them! Thank you so much for this!:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

keystone

babyblooz wrote: »

The drain runs across the bottom of our garden from their outside toilet and joins in the sewer pipe about half way across the width of our garden, where there is a manhole cover which we have covered with decking. Their outside toilet gets used, it builds up and backs up so we have to put the rods down from our man hole cover to clear it. It hardly seems fair that we have to keep hauling up the man hole cover and power hosing their smelly stuff away!!! We don't cause the blockage but we have to sort it.

Does the blockage occur upstream or downstream of the chamber? If its downstream and backs up into the chamber then its not necessarily just their "output" doing it and not necessarily their fault unless they are putting things down the toilet which they should not.

It may be that a section of the drain has dropped causing an obstruction on which things which should not be put down the toilet (but someone does somewhere) catch. It builds up from there.

It would be useful for you to draw a "map" of the drainage system to establish exactly what is classified as public sewer and what is private. All connections must join at a chamber / manhole. It should be fairly easy to do but needs cooperation of your neighbours. You can check which branches are fed from which houses by getting people flushing loos individually and looking down all the manholes to see where they come out.

Cheers