Alleged Water running from overflow pipe

Belenus

EssexExile said:

Robin9 said:

You are likely to have 2 or more "overflow" pipes.  Every WC has one  and a condensate pipe from your gas boiler.


Go outside and use some binoculars if necessary

I thought the days of overflows everywhere were long over. Don't most loos overflow into the pan nowadays?

Our 2004 built house has no overflows. The only outside pipe is the boiler pressure release outflow and that is at just above ground level.

The condensate links into the indoor underfloor drainage pipework so it exits along with all the other waste water.

I have no idea how common or typical that is with recent housing.

Robin9

Dandytf said:

theoretica said:

You have walked round the outside of the building looking for a dripping overflow? 

Not quite that was next idea, I opened windows and can possibly see pipe.

No pipe from bedroom window.
photo is from my living room window, would this let water run from kitchen or bathroom?

thanks

Looking at the photo what is the plastic sheet for if not to stop water dripping onto the window below?    Your window and pipe looks close to ground level or is that a section of flat roof ?

GDB2222

It’s pretty clear that someone needs to GO OUTSIDE and walk all round the building. They can then see whether any of the overflow pipes are, ahem, overflowing. 

If you want to pay £99 for someone else to do that, it’s not something I would do, but there’s no accounting for taste.

Why did you post a question here, by the way?

TELLIT01

EssexExile said:

Robin9 said:

You are likely to have 2 or more "overflow" pipes.  Every WC has one  and a condensate pipe from your gas boiler.


Go outside and use some binoculars if necessary

I thought the days of overflows everywhere were long over. Don't most loos overflow into the pan nowadays?

That depends when the toilet cistern was installed.  We've been in our house 34 years and the toilet was only replaced about 8 years ago.  Before that it had an overflow pipe through the wall.

TELLIT01

If it is overflow from a WC cistern it may only become apparent when nobody is in the house for a period as flushing will obviously drop the level.

Robin9

£99 for the sake of a 10 minute walk is not very MSE is it 

bris

Condensate will not have an overflow pipe, it should terminate either inside to the kitchen waste or similar or outside to a soakaway buried in the ground. I am assuming the installer is not an idiot in this though.

The cistern if relatively modern overflows back into the bowl old style you just look under the cistern and big white pipe will go out the wall so very easy to see from the outside.

The other is a water tank with a ballcock, that will also have an overflow going out the wall. Again just trace it out the wall and it's easy to pinpoint outside.

Dandytf

Robin9 said:

Dandytf said:

theoretica said:

You have walked round the outside of the building looking for a dripping overflow? 

Not quite that was next idea, I opened windows and can possibly see pipe.

No pipe from bedroom window.
photo is from my living room window, would this let water run from kitchen or bathroom?

thanks

Looking at the photo what is the plastic sheet for if not to stop water dripping onto the window below?    Your window and pipe looks close to ground level or is that a section of flat roof ?

i'm top of four floors, flat roofed building, 4 flats per floor 16 flats total- odds/even's.

My window is from top of four floors, that bag could be to stop dripping, not sure as it's from flat below mine.

thanks

bolwin1

Is there a reason why you haven't left your flat and looked outside to see what the problem is ?

molerat

Judging by the sheet of plastic and the wet patch on the ground below the leak is coming from that pipe or one directly above it. You need to figure out what that pipe comes from, there can't be many things. Is this site changing into Moneywastingexpert ?