Surface water drainage query

FreeBear

Phil4432 said: Write a polite and firm anonymous letter to the

Over the years, I've had a couple of anonymous letters shoved through my letterbox. The net result is a finger raised in the air, and a large raspberry is blown. The author gets treated with a mix of disdain and pity. The issue only gets fixed when I get round to it (or not).

Tea, biscuits, and a friendly word works much better than any scribble.

Phil4432

FreeBear said:

Phil4432 said: Write a polite and firm anonymous letter to the

Over the years, I've had a couple of anonymous letters shoved through my letterbox. The net result is a finger raised in the air, and a large raspberry is blown. The author gets treated with a mix of disdain and pity. The issue only gets fixed when I get round to it (or not).

Tea, biscuits, and a friendly word works much better than any scribble.

Wished tea and biscuits worked nowadays mate.  Decades ago, maybe.  Nowadays, it's seen as a sign of weakness. 

Apodemus

Phil4432 said:

Your neighbors need to maintain their property a bit better, and not have their gutters overflowing.  Write a polite and firm anonymous letter to the peasants, telling them to get the gutters fixed. 

Its not clear from the OP's post whether the neighbour is attached, or the one across the footpath between the two houses.  I would suggest that if it is not attached, the OP has no reason to be concerned about the state of their neighbour's gutters.  Indeed, it would be none of their business whatsoever.  I agree with Freebear that a letter to them would only inflame neighbour relations and is best avoided.

Phil4432

Apodemus said:

Phil4432 said:

Your neighbors need to maintain their property a bit better, and not have their gutters overflowing.  Write a polite and firm anonymous letter to the peasants, telling them to get the gutters fixed. 

Its not clear from the OP's post whether the neighbour is attached, or the one across the footpath between the two houses.  I would suggest that if it is not attached, the OP has no reason to be concerned about the state of their neighbour's gutters.  Indeed, it would be none of their business whatsoever.  I agree with Freebear that a letter to them would only inflame neighbour relations and is best avoided.

This is why people end up with subsidence.
The OP said the flooding was due to his ill maintained neighbors gutters, causing the footpath between two houses flooding.  We can presume that the footpath isn't 500m wide, and that the OP has been significantly affected by it.

Therefore, his neighbor's lack of maintenance has affected him.

If some idiot wants to cause subsidence to his/her own property, then good.  But doing it to others also is not legal in this country. 

Apodemus

Phil4432 said:

Apodemus said:

Phil4432 said:

Your neighbors need to maintain their property a bit better, and not have their gutters overflowing.  Write a polite and firm anonymous letter to the peasants, telling them to get the gutters fixed. 

Its not clear from the OP's post whether the neighbour is attached, or the one across the footpath between the two houses.  I would suggest that if it is not attached, the OP has no reason to be concerned about the state of their neighbour's gutters.  Indeed, it would be none of their business whatsoever.  I agree with Freebear that a letter to them would only inflame neighbour relations and is best avoided.

This is why people end up with subsidence.
The OP said the flooding was due to his ill maintained neighbors gutters, causing the footpath between two houses flooding.  We can presume that the footpath isn't 500m wide, and that the OP has been significantly affected by it.

Therefore, his neighbor's lack of maintenance has affected him.

If some idiot wants to cause subsidence to his/her own property, then good.  But doing it to others also is not legal in this country. 

Eh?  I think you need to read the OP's posts again.  They said that the water level is sitting quite high in the drain and that it hasn't overflowed.

troffasky

Re-reading posts is a sign of weakness, nowadays.