Neighbours gutters

DanDare999

Bendy_House said:

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...

Is that actually a thing or something you've made up?

Bendy_House

john.h said:

The guttering should not be on the posters land.

It doesn't appear to be.

Bendy_House

DanDare999 said:

Bendy_House said:

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...

Is that actually a thing or something you've made up?

It's a thing.

stuart45

Thought it meant you were getting fired.

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

gorbalsgerry

Bendy_House said:

john.h said:

The guttering should not be on the posters land.

It doesn't appear to be.

The guttering isn't on my land but the water from it is. 

DanDare999

Bendy_House said:

DanDare999 said:

Bendy_House said:

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...

Is that actually a thing or something you've made up?

It's a thing.

Got a link to back it up?

Alderbank

...in which case that neighbour could send you a 'put on notice' letter for any subsequent damage caused.

Is that actually a thing or something you've made up?

It's a thing.

Got a link to back it up?

If you know about law, the first thing you go to when there is a dispute to do with the boundary between two terraced houses is the Party Wall Act 1996. The Act deals with issues ranging from foundations to gutters.

A formal dispute begins when one neighbour serves the other with a Party Wall Notice.
These notices have not been 'made up' by Bendy_House. They were 'made up' by Parliament 25 years ago.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/40/contents

john.h

Bendy_House said:

john.h said:

The guttering should not be on the posters land.

It doesn't appear to be.

Yes looking at the pic it isn’t. Just copy what your neighbour has done. Remove your stop end and replace it with a outlet and redirect that on to their land. 😁

Mistral001

Just to get this right, before the recent work to your neighbour's gutter, there was only a stop end at the end of their gutter and no short length of downpipe feeding water into your own gutter.  If that is the case you could ask the question why was that done.  As Bendy_house suggests you could say, that if any water damages caused to any part of your building as a result, that you will know who to contact to pay for the damage.   Note this could have been a simple mistake by a roofer who was copying something he had done before and nobody noticed on that occasion or permission had been obtained by the next door neighbour.