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Odd-Looking Vent in Garden
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I love the idea of an irreverent vent.
Rather windy?:)0 -
Buried in accounts (helping ex out and he's made a mess of things), took a quick break and needed the laugh this post gave me. Thank you.0
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it could be a stink pot / vent associated with the manhole. If it bothers you that much then lift the manhole and have a look for a hole leading from the manhole in the direction of the erection. In the old days the final manhole before the public sewer was provided with an air vent and these were not always mounted on pipes that went up 20ft into the air.
I'd agree with this, although a brick-built structure is a complex and expensive way of providing drainage ventilation so is not very common. If the house is ex-council it might be more likely though
As well as this kind of ventilation being used with interceptors and septic tanks/cesspools (as noted on the link) a third common usage is at the discharge manhole of a pumped sewer system to allow the surge of air when the pump(s) start to be released rather than continuing along the sewer system.
It is possible - but by no means certain - that a larger brick-built vent might be due to a situation involving pumps... something I'd want to check out before buying rather than assuming it is nothing significant."In the future, everyone will be rich for 15 minutes"0 -
Well, thank you all for your informative and, very often, hilarious suggestions as to what the structure could be.
I'm going with the entrance to some 'buried treasure', so have put in a bid of 50% over the asking price ;-)0
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