to think our next door neighbour is taking the p*ss

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We live in an end of terrace. Next door are ok superficially but they are selfish & impose on us, but the latest one takes the biscuit.

All the houses have kitchen extensions with flat rooves. We had a leak last year & builder came and sealed it up. Had another leak in torrential rain few weeks ago. Dh had a closer look today & found next door rerouted their downpipe onto our roof! Their roof is in worse condition than ours so bet they have a leak but have done this rather than pay for repair.

Dh is thinking of speaking to them but the bloke is a bully so wouldn't be productive.

Not so much aibu, more wwyd with neighbours like this? Argh moan! Aipbu to come on here for a whinge.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think he should have got a building warrant to make a change like that to his property. I suggest you phone your local building control department and ask them to get on the case. They won't mention your name.

Thanks LessMiss. It was worth a check. Bloke at council said it'd be a civil matter. It would concern them only with a new build.

Could you add on an elaborate bit of plumbing that eventually sends the water back to them? I'm thinking somehow get a length of hose attached and run down to the edge of your roof, to then spray in the direction of their kitchen window?

Phone the council and ask for a building inspector due to building regs. You don't put drainage onto someone else's roof and DH says he can see clearly how they have mucked it around. Do not be fobbed off with the line we only do new builds. Your neighbours have clearly modified and interfered with the drainage which will eventually end up with building damage. The inspector should come round and have a word with him.

Thats CSI speak for big nasty letter with either the threat or enclosure of a super fat fine.

I would route it back and add a laminated letter telling them that if they fuck about with it again I will send them the bill for repairing the damage.

vtech

csi will try again if needs be, thanks.

Update tonight, dh decided to speak to them. Only saw his wife who did 'innocent face' but she said she'd tell him. Seems like dh said it v matter if fact. Pipe has been turned round. Causing leaks & flooding. Please put it back how it was.

I'm expecting neighbour to ignore this so we'll see. Thanks for listening today. Been in right grump, needed to vent!

(hasn't helped that I've not slept for week due to teething grumpy toddler!)

check here, but they really cannot do that without your permission

You do need to make sure all down pipes are draining straight into a drain, gutter, or hopper.

The down pipes should be connected to more pipe going across roof.

No down pipe should ever empty onto a flat roof.

You cannot direct your run off onto a neighbouring building, unless there has been an agreement.

Well, after DH spoke to her last night, the husband has been making 'fixy' noises and I have noticed the top bit is clipped back in! AMAZED!

Will have a proper neb when they are not in garden. Baffled as to why they did it in first place now, if they were going to cave so easily. Maybe just trying it on before having to fix their own problem?

Ooooh, that sounds promising.

We have a strange women next door and she did this onto our balcony causing the leak into our garage underneath to become much worse. I pulled off the end of the pipe and turned it back when she was out. Keep an eye now incase it miraculously twizzles round again!

Well, it's all fixed. Took the guy 10 mins and it's a really good job, properly attached to his waste pipe. Don't understand why he did what he did in the first place now other than being deliberately mean?!

Sometimes people are just arseholes because they can be. I doubt it crossed his mind that you may notice, never mind get a leak from it.

wow - not one of you has said maybe it was a mistake? so glad we don't live in the UK with the twitchy curtains herd mentality!

poop you do not know my neighbour and if you have looked at the photo, you will realise that cannot be a mistake.

I also fail to see how I have 'twitch curtain herd mentality' when it was the water pouring through my ceiling and flooding our yard that alerted me to the issue!

Problem with the UK is that everyone is living cheek by jowl and under a lot of pressure, so issues like this you'd like to think a) wouldn't happen because people are more neighbourly in the first place and b) you could just resolve nicely, but sadly this is not the norm because many people do not want to know and are very agressive these days.

Still, glad you are happy where you are!

I just meant that everyone immediately jumped on the bandwagon of agreeing your neighbour is victimising you - rather than just seeing it as a mistake. Maybe he is just a bit inept? There's an awful lot of seething at the neighbours on these threads

Ok poop fair enough, if you don't know him then you might like to think this could happen by mistake but it definately could not have been. He isn't inept. He is very skillful in anything DIY related, as shown by the fact it only took him 10 mins to actually do the job properly yesterday.

I won't go into the other stuff he does which makes life less pleasant but none of it is accidental, just a 'sod you' attitude on his part unfortunately. Sadly I think there are many more like him which is why we get it a lot on these threads.

Where do you live? Maybe we should emmigrate if it's nicer! :)

currently madrid! I guess we've been struck by how neighbourly and tolerant and un-seething it is, and there is much close living (we're in an apartment). Anyway, hope all goes well for you