Buying my first house, drainage issues

Emmalouise9595

Hello, so I'm in the process of buying my first house. Morgage and everything is sorted, they've valued it. I've had my homebuyers survey done which has thrown some issues up. Apparently a supply drain issues as constant water is flowing into the inspection pipe.

The owners have arranged a cctv drainage report and also a structural survey, to see if there's any damanrg.


Anyone been through similar or be able to offer any advice.

This is all new and I'm a little out of my depth

G_M

So you need toknow where the water is coming from:


* a leak in the mains supply?
* a constantly running/leaking tap/pipe in the house?

* underground stream?


How much water are we talking about? A trickle? A huge flow? something in between?


What 'inspection pipe'? I assume you mean an inspection chamber (square metal lid over a chamber through which a pipe flows)? Do you know where the pipe in question comes from and goes to?

foxy-stoat

No such thing as a "supply drain" - you have foul or surface water drains.

Emmalouise9595

Inspection chamber yes, sorry.
The only wall in the house that's damb is the internal wall is the wall between the lounge and kitchen.

Although the water company (unitited utilities) have said there's no leak. Just a constant small amount of flowing water.

It's not a leak that's causing running/leaking water, it's causing the flags to sink around the inspection chamber.

Albala

I'd wait to hear the results of the two reports. You're lucky the owners are doing this and not just letting you pay for them!
I'd also take what a water company says about where water is coming from with just a wee pinch of salt. I've known a water company to be adamant a leak across a property and a road wasn't mains water, arguing the toss about it for months, even saying their tests proved it wasn't, when that's exactly what it turned out to be.



Wait for the reports, and then you should be able to see more clearly where things stand.

ProDave

Emmalouise9595 wrote: »

Inspection chamber yes, sorry.
The only wall in the house that's damb is the internal wall is the wall between the lounge and kitchen.

Although the water company (unitited utilities) have said there's no leak. Just a constant small amount of flowing water.

It's not a leak that's causing running/leaking water, it's causing the flags to sink around the inspection chamber.

This thread is confusing me.

So from your survey they have noted water is constantly flowing through an inspection chamber. Apart from this are there ANY other plumbing related issues in your house?

The water flowing through that chamber might well be coming from another property further up the run unless you are SURE you are the first property on the run.

The issue of settling paving slabs is probably something different. You can have water continually flowing through the drain and that should not affect the ground around the drain. It could be that there is a second problem, a leak in the drain, but that would cause problems even with normal intermittent flow.