The plop-age chronicles! Oh bums I'll have no internerd connection for a bit

Conrad

It did'nt appear to bother the previous owners.....................

RabbitMad

I say block the pipe and see who's carpet gets ruined.

Should take no more than a day to build up - whoever calls dynarod are the culprits.

nelly_2

silvercar wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl:


Apparently we are responsible for maintaining the flow of water. One phone call to the Environment Agency who told me I would be responsible for removing any dead cattle that blocked the culvert on my land. !

The correct way to remove cattle is by bar-be-que

nelly_2

Conrad wrote: »

It did'nt appear to bother the previous owners.....................

He did a runner! mortgaged up to the max and did one

and it didnt bother him cos hes obviously an inconsiderate get

I am far from a tree hugger but binning crap into a river is well out of order these days

SquatNow

Suzy_M wrote: »

I hate to tell you this but milk has the greatest pollutant effect on water courses (then whisky, then beer, then farm slurry I think) than the raw sewage.:eek:

Correct. It's very nasty stuff in large quantities.... kills all the fish etc.

Best bet is for the OP to trace the pipes back as far as he can then block the end up with a sandbag. TBH it will probably be the neighbour nearest the manhole cover.

OP: Have you tried *ASKING* you neighbours if it's them? If need be, dropping hints about being forced to block it off for environmental reasons. A note through everyones letterbox might help.

BobProperty

Sounds like I've missed all the fun! I hadn't spotted this post until now. So, a few points. You can buy "tracing dye" to track water flow, try plumbers merchants or outdoor equipment specialists (cavers use it). What appears to have happened is that someone's toilet is connected into the surface water system. I'd be checking around the immediate neighbours to see if someone has fitted an en-suite or downstairs loo in addition to the original layout of their house, especially if you can't see it going into the existing soil stack. If I'm correct, by the way, someone is going to get a big bill because they will have to dig out their existing soil pipework and connect it into the correct drain. They will also risk Building Control and the Environment Agency being after them.

iwanttosave_2

Give all your neighbours a different lenght of coloured string and ask them to tie one end to the loo seat and flush the other end, the one with the colour that comes out at the end did it in the study with a candle stick.

Can't belive none of you thought of this idea. :rolleyes:

Love the new sig by the way, PMSL.

P.S, please have it cleared before I come to stay. Have we discussed colour schemes for my room?

nelly_2

BobProperty wrote: »

Sounds like I've missed all the fun! I hadn't spotted this post until now. So, a few points. You can buy "tracing dye" to track water flow, try plumbers merchants or outdoor equipment specialists (cavers use it). What appears to have happened is that someone's toilet is connected into the surface water system. I'd be checking around the immediate neighbours to see if someone has fitted an en-suite or downstairs loo in addition to the original layout of their house, especially if you can't see it going into the existing soil stack. If I'm correct, by the way, someone is going to get a big bill because they will have to dig out their existing soil pipework and connect it into the correct drain. They will also risk Building Control and the Environment Agency being after them.

I phone the environment agency and they coming out soon

They do cameras that have a sonar thing on them so they can follow its track above ground.

When I told the bloke it could be one of over 100 houses further up hill he sounded partucularly upset

I'm loving this its actually quite interesting

red_bertie

I am finding some of these "tracing" suggestions extremely inventive and very funny :rotfl: . If ever I have any domestic [house/property] problems, I am definitely posting on here first.

Nelly - did you ask the env agency who picks up the tab?

RB

cajef

nelly wrote: »

They do cameras that have a sonar thing on them so they can follow its track above ground.

Thats better than sending something up the actual pipe, there is always the risk of meeting a brownie coming the other way.:eek: