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

Marktheshark

RS2000. wrote: »

It falls out the sky for free where I live.

I think you will find most water companies claim to own the water from the sky.
Have a google.

DTDfanBoy

the_r_sole wrote: »

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

If you have the outlet from the downpipe lower than the top of the water butt when the water butt fills to just above the same level it will stop filling, obviously this doesn't work on syphonic systems.

Biggles

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

If you have the outlet from the downpipe lower than the top of the water butt when the water butt fills to just above the same level it will stop filling, obviously this doesn't work on syphonic systems.

But then the gutter will just overflow.

DTDfanBoy

Biggles wrote: »

But then the gutter will just overflow.

The water will simply continue down the downpipe once the pressure equalises, perhaps an image will help

System

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

The water will simply continue down the downpipe once the pressure equalises, perhaps an image will help


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so that connection into the downpipe has to run along the full side of the neighbours garage at a few feet off the ground, and around a corner to be useful - can't see it working here tbh - the problem is trying to get a water onto the ops property which doesn't look possible/practical

System

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

The water will simply continue down the downpipe once the pressure equalises, perhaps an image will help

That's not thought out very well. Due to a horizontal connection the amount of water going into the but is going to be negligible

pendragon_arther

There is also the matter of any damage to the OP's garage in the future due to the possibility of high winds, heavy snow etc if the fittings haven't been properly fixed.

no1catman

Judging by the 'map' whilst I agree that's likely that the neighbour's water butt has been sited incorrectly, and they water that falls on one half of your garage goes into it - I don't see how you could've sited a water butt of your own to take advantage of that. That is a butt on the right hand side would block the entrance to the garage.


The only way around that would arrange for the developer to reset the guttering so that water flows in the opposite direction, and you have a water butt at the back of the garage - but what happens to the excess water!?

bsms1147

If, as you say, it doesn't bother you, OP, why then does it bother you?

Annie1960

RS2000. wrote: »

You pay a sewage charge whether it goes down or not but you don't pay the water company for rain water.

You do if it goes via a public sewer. You don't if it goes via a private soak away. Having recently seen my searches, I pay £25 a year for this.