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Water soaking brickwork from neighbour's leaking toilet
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Sound good news about your builder coming and cooperation from your neighbour. I hope he gets to the bottom of it.
As regards the soil pipe - yes it's that big black pipe. I thought it must be your neighbours cos it's inboard of the line of his extension. But if you are saying it's yours, doesn't that mean he's built his extension on your land? I can't see if that's a gable end we're looking at but in any case, if that pipe and the small loo overflow pipe to the left of it indicates the position of your loo, surely directly below it is another room of your house and therefore he has extended beyond the line of the party wall? Perhaps I'm wrong.
Anyway, let us know what the builder says.
I'll have to investigate that further, my toilet is nowhere near where the pipe is, there is the back room above the kitchen, and the bathroom is on the other side of that I will have to have another look. The extension was already there when I moved in and before the current neighbour moved in, my kitchen inside does seem to end just where the boiler is (as seen where flu is outside, the boiler is inside).
Curiouser and curiouser!0 -
Well, that is baffling.
Either that's your loo waste pipe, meaning that your house extends further towards your neighbours than you think (and his extension extends onto your property) or it's his loo waste and he really does have a loo upstairs (!) and his waste is coming over your property and into your waste system.
It has to be one of those situations. Unless there's an incredibly narrow house between yours and his with no windows:)0 -
Been rain overnight but the corner actually looks less wet than rest of paving slabs. but this may be an illusion will check it when rain dries off!0
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Well, that is baffling.
Either that's your loo waste pipe, meaning that your house extends further towards your neighbours than you think (and his extension extends onto your property) or it's his loo waste and he really does have a loo upstairs (!) and his waste is coming over your property and into your waste system.
It has to be one of those situations. Unless there's an incredibly narrow house between yours and his with no windows:)
Did a quick measurement last night & there seems.to be approx 7 inches more gap between boiler flue inside house than outside to edge of wall/extension - will measure at front later as is much clearer where divide is! Am guessing old house like this has been thru at least one major refurb so who knows what might have been done!0 -
Just went for quick look further out back from the looks of it there is another soil pipe coming out of his wall further along so the nearer one must be mine - my gutter board at top ends in line with his extension but the divide inside clearly seems different!0
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Am taking pics will post when I can get on laptop!0
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The best thing you can do, is buy a bottle of wine. Drink it, then put the cork into the pipe, then you will find out where its coming from when your or your neighbor start getting water coming through ceilings.0
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Ok, have just been out and judging by the huge puddles everywhere, it rained pretty heavily overnight, most of my paving is still wet.
However, apart from a bit of water in the corner, that corner slab is among the driest, if anything the water in the corner has receded hugely since yesterday.
Where does this leave the rain (either from above or below) theory?
Part of me is hoping it was the leaking toilet or something else after all, and the neighbour has now got it sorted, but it has receded like this before only to run out further again.
Where's Columbo when you need him?!0 -
Pouring again now and dark. With torch can see a few small drops dripping from the edge of the neighbour's flat roof,but actually nothing compared to the actual rain itself and as I said before was heavy last night but the water in the corner shrank. Can't tell now as it's all wet0
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