Placement of sewer drains

ecclesto

I am looking to install a downstairs toilet and need to find where the drains lie. How do I do this please?

Tom99

Look for outside manhole covers and existing soil pipes

JuzaMum

The water board have plans of what's in the road but not (usually) what is on your land. Where does the soil pipe from the upstairs toilet go? Can you hook into that?

ecclesto

The upstairs soil pipe goes through the kitchen wall at the back of the house. I have looked for manhole covers but can't see any but the back garden is covered by grass and stones. There are no covers outside the front of the house so I suppose I need to see some sort of plans. Will the water board be able to tell me? To hook up to the existing pipe would mean going underneath the whole of the house.

AndyMc.....

The water board are unlikely to have plans. Have any of your neighbours got manholes?

ecclesto

No none that we can see. I live at the end of a block of 4

AndyMc.....

So someone!!!8217;s buried then under a patio.

Tom99

ecclesto wrote: »

No none that we can see. I live at the end of a block of 4

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Do the other 3 also have a soil pipe on the back wall? If so it is likely the common sewer runs along the back of the properties.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Is your new toilet at the front? If so there may not be a drain you can connect to.[/FONT]

ecclesto

No one buried under the patio that I know of! All the soil pipes run down the back wall in the kitchen. There is an alleyway running behind the back gardens but no manhole cover. Would the land registry know?

ecclesto

I would like the toilet at the front of the house.

Head_The_Ball

You might be able to locate the drain by getting someone to flush a toilet or fill a basin and unplug it and listen outside for running water.

It would need to be very quiet outside and would probably need a fair bit of luck.

Alternatively, try one of these.