New build - Developer has installed next doors water butt using my garage roof!

Biggles

I'm unclear what you actually want as a solution, OP.

Do you resent the neighbour using 'your' rainwater for his garden? Why? There's no feasible way you could use it, why not let him get on with it instead of insisting it goes down the drain to be wasted?

This has the makings of a long neighbour dispute, and that could impact on the values of both your houses.

tattycath

I guess an issue could arise if the OP wanted to use the rainwater from the garage roof to water their plants in the garden-presumably, as it's a new build it will have a water meter in the property as opposed to a set fee for water.

tattycath

Biggles wrote: »

I'm unclear what you actually want as a solution, OP.

Do you resent the neighbour using 'your' rainwater for his garden? Why? There's no feasible way you could use it, why not let him get on with it instead of insisting it goes down the drain to be wasted?

This has the makings of a long neighbour dispute, and that could impact on the values of both your houses.

An attachment could actually be put on the guttering/drainpipe so that the water could be collected on the owners property couldn't it?

System

tattycath wrote: »

I guess an issue could arise if the OP wanted to use the rainwater from the garage roof to water their plants in the garden-presumably, as it's a new build it will have a water meter in the property as opposed to a set fee for water.

But they have no way of collecting that water as the gutter and downpipe are on next doors property!

tattycath

the_r_sole wrote: »

But they have no way of collecting that water as the gutter and downpipe are on next doors property!

The fact still remains that the gutter belongs to the owner of the garage. I'm sure you can attach a pipe from the guttering, so it goes down at an angle and therefore collect the water on the owners own property, if they wanted to benefit from the collection of rainwater.
It does sound like a !!!! up by the builders/developers

Keep_pedalling

Aa long as you don't want to tap this water into your own butt (maybe I need to rephrase that ) then I don't see the problem. Rather than someone making use of a valuable free resource you seem to want to just let it all go down the drain.

System

tattycath wrote: »

The fact still remains that the gutter belongs to the owner of the garage. I'm sure you can attach a pipe from the guttering, so it goes down at an angle and therefore collect the water on the owners own property, if they wanted to benefit from the collection of rainwater.
It does sound like a !!!! up by the builders/developers

you also need to have an overflow connected into the drainage system, so you would need to have an attachment coming around into the butt, then another returning to the downpipe!

Does the op have a water butt elsewhere?

JulietWhisky

Lots of debate here,

To be clear it actually does not bother me! It's more of the principle than anything else - i.e. the fact it's my garage and my downpipe that they have cut in half to add the connector for the water butt.

I will ask the developer today, as personally I think it has been installed in the wrong place by mistake - it should be installed on their garage and on next doors paved area.

Diagram below..

DTDfanBoy

the_r_sole wrote: »

you also need to have an overflow connected into the drainage system, so you would need to have an attachment coming around into the butt, then another returning to the downpipe!

Does the op have a water butt elsewhere?

If it has been plumbed in correctly there should be no need for an overflow outlet.

System

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

If it has been plumbed in correctly there should be no need for an overflow outlet.

how does that work then? surely the water has to go somewhere when the thing fills up?