Neighbours gutters

gorbalsgerry

Mistral001 said:

gorbalsgerry said:

Mistral001 said:

If they have taken their down pipe away, then you need to point out that you are now providing them with a free down pipe. 

There was never a downpipe in that position at all.

Is there a downpipe serving that gutter  anywhere in your neighbour's property.

No the downpipe she was using is 3 houses away to left of photo. 

Mistral001

Some rows of terrace houses were built with only one downpipe every other house or even every three houses.  I would look at the other houses in the row and see how many houses there are to downpipes in general. 

Eldi_Dos

gorbalsgerry said:

Eldi_Dos said:

Is next door house owner occupied or is there a landlord?

If there is a landlord contact them with your concerns.

Owner occupier

If it is owner occupier and you have spoke to them with your concerns and they are unwilling to do anything it may need a solicitor to get involved, not the way any of us want to live but may come to that.

Before going down that road you could make a appointment at CAB and go there with some photographs and summary and dates of conversations you have had with neighbour.

Just a afterthought is the house three doors down a owner occupier or is there a landlord there that could be contacted.

gorbalsgerry

Eldi_Dos said:

gorbalsgerry said:

Eldi_Dos said:

Is next door house owner occupied or is there a landlord?

If there is a landlord contact them with your concerns.

Owner occupier

If it is owner occupier and you have spoke to them with your concerns and they are unwilling to do anything it may need a solicitor to get involved, not the way any of us want to live but may come to that.

Before going down that road you could make a appointment at CAB and go there with some photographs and summary and dates of conversations you have had with neighbour.

Just a afterthought is the house three doors down a owner occupier or is there a landlord there that could be contacted.

I believe the house nearest the downpipe is still a council house and can't understand why when the problem was there they didn't contact the council and request the person cleaned the gutter, instead they just diverted the problem onto me. Bizarre behaviour

Eldi_Dos

gorbalsgerry said:

Eldi_Dos said:

gorbalsgerry said:

Eldi_Dos said:

Is next door house owner occupied or is there a landlord?

If there is a landlord contact them with your concerns.

Owner occupier

If it is owner occupier and you have spoke to them with your concerns and they are unwilling to do anything it may need a solicitor to get involved, not the way any of us want to live but may come to that.

Before going down that road you could make a appointment at CAB and go there with some photographs and summary and dates of conversations you have had with neighbour.

Just a afterthought is the house three doors down a owner occupier or is there a landlord there that could be contacted.

I believe the house nearest the downpipe is still a council house and can't understand why when the problem was there they didn't contact the council and request the person cleaned the gutter, instead they just diverted the problem onto me. Bizarre behaviour

You could get in touch with council and explain problem, they should come out and fix their bit.

biscan25

We share downpipes and rainwater drains with our semi-detached neighbour. It's even in the deeds that they are shared responsibility.
Might be worth looking in yours, as your neighbour might have rights to do what they did.

gorbalsgerry

biscan25 said:

We share downpipes and rainwater drains with our semi-detached neighbour. It's even in the deeds that they are shared responsibility.
Might be worth looking in yours, as your neighbour might have rights to do what they did.

Nothing in the deeds

john.h

Bendy_House said:

Don't do what John suggests...!

And - lawdie - don't post the same damned issue twice on the same forum!

(I've replied on the other one.)

If my neighbour fitted guttering to flow into mine and was causing my house damage, I wouldn’t think twice about turning the fall pipe 180 degrees or remove it 

Bendy_House

john.h said:

Bendy_House said:

Don't do what John suggests...!

And - lawdie - don't post the same damned issue twice on the same forum!

(I've replied on the other one.)

If my neighbour fitted guttering to flow into mine and was causing my house damage, I wouldn’t think twice about turning the fall pipe 180 degrees or remove it 

In which case that neighbour could send you a 'put on notice' letter for any subsequent damage caused. It is not the solution.

Gerry, it is very common for level terraced houses to share downpipes, and that is usually the way it was designed from the off. Even if it wasn't, then the non-DP owners will usually gain an 'easement' over time to allow them to continue to have their flow drained via a neighbouring property.

That's a completely different issue to what you have. You never had a shared gutter with that neighbour.

Your neighbour is seemingly sending the whole of that side's water down a single pipe into your gutter - that is just not what guttering was designed for, and it's no surprise that it is overwhelmed by that focused flow.

Even if your gutter coped, the neighbour shouldn't unilaterally do such a thing.

Please tell me you have LP...

john.h

The guttering should not be on the posters land. I would ask them to remove it, if they didn’t I would remove it.