Drainage from garage

just_looking_2

Anybody help me? I have a blocked drain on my garage, it is the guttering from the roof, runs down the side of garage and underground. Its blocked with pea gravel from roof, sand and all sorts!! i cut through pipe at bottom to get to underground bit and using drainage rods managed to extract a bucket full of stuff, couldn't get at the stuff right at the bottom. Water drains away very very slowly now, but during summer and afterwards with the heavy downpours the pipe fills back up and flows over the top wetting garage wall, which is now wet inside the garage. I called a drainage company out after new year to unblock it. They used their jet thing to unblock it, amd were unsuccessful 'its blocked solid' apparently, charging me 50 notes for their time. (they did lift 2 drain covers to work out whether it drained to them, and ran dye through etc) It appears this doesn't drain to anywhere near- on a junction or something, so they advised that the best course of action would be to block off current pipe, put another one in place that drains to manhole that is next to garage, (4 paving slabs away). This would require lifting the 4 slabs, digging down to lay a new pipe into the soil and chopping it into the wall of the drain that is 4 slabs away- cost £400! Seems steep to me??? Fella rang to give me quote, I asked him if I could turn guttering around and put downpipe on other side of garage which would result in lifting ONE slab, he said he'd get back to me with a price- he hasn't!!! Any body know anyone in Leic area, or could tell me if £400 is reasonable before I waste my time consulting other people. Don't even know who to consult, is it drain men? builders? diy odd job men??? Sorry its long!

djn576

as far as I know you are not supposed to put surface water down the drains. you supposed to direct it to a soak away or you can allow it to pass onto your neighbours property.

my advice fit a down pipe from your garage roof at a convenient point so that you can pipe the water away from the garage into soak away (large hole filled with stones/rubble) obviously this may not be possible if you dn't own the land around the garage in which case you're back to your digging into the drain.

BobProperty

just_looking wrote:

........I called a drainage company out after new year to unblock it. They used their jet thing to unblock it, amd were unsuccessful 'its blocked solid' apparently, charging me 50 notes for their time.

Best known name in the business now charges over twice that :eek:

just_looking wrote:

..... they advised that the best course of action would be to block off current pipe, put another one in place that drains to manhole that is next to garage, (4 paving slabs away). This would require lifting the 4 slabs, digging down to lay a new pipe into the soil and chopping it into the wall of the drain that is 4 slabs away- cost £400! Seems steep to me???

Doesn't sound outrageous to me. Depends how deep they are going.
I'm surprise that jetting it didn't clear it, unless all it does is run to a soakaway at present.
Check with the local water utility as to whether you can run it into existing drains or use a soakaway. The rule vary from area to area IIRC.

Phil37

give us a call PRB services, Hinckley,we are in the yellow pages, thomson we will give you free advise and quotation and be able to check with seven trent water to see if the sewer is combined in the street,

just_looking_2

Thanks so much for all of your help folks, I've been off line for a while- bt brokeband. the quote was to lift the slabs and dig deep enough to lay the pipe, so it seemed steep to me. I pulled the pipe down, chopped it off at ground level, filled hole up with cement and stones and guttering to other end of garage and lifted one slab to put pipe into the side of the drain. Total cost £24. Thanks also for the offer of telephone assistance. This really is the most useful site ever!