To be annoyed our neighbour has used our hosepipe to clear his blocked sewer

[stripeyknickersspottysocks]

Its not even as if he's had the courtesy to tell us.

His sewer which is on the same run as ours was blocked, our section was fine though. He's built an extension over his manhole so asked DH if it was ok if he popped over to rod from our m/h. DH said yes, we were out the next day. Come home to find our hose pipe has mashed up bits of shitty loo paper all over it.

Going to have to buy a new hose pipe now as there is no way I'm using it again. And next time his sewer blocks up he's going to struggle clearing it as there is no way he's using our manhole.

I'd give him the used hosepipe, stripey, and tell him you don't want it on your property any more! Might shame him into replacing it.

You have every right to be annoyed - it was rude for him to use it without asking, and disgusting and gross for him to leave it befouled.

befouled is a fabulous term!

Yeah, give it to him and either get him to wash it properly for you in lots of disinfectant or buy you a new one.

It will wash off- but make him do it.

At least he didn't use it for a spot of colonic irrigation...

is it not against building regs to build over manoles?

report the bastard to somewhere and have him forced to remove his extension forthwith.

in the meantime hand him the shitty hose and politely request a replacement.

Is his extension legal? He has to have access to his sewer for exactly this reason.
We wanted to build an extension which went over our rain water manhole and there are all sorts of legal stuff to agree to. In the end because nobody elses drains ran into it as we were the top of the street it was easier to move it. It still cost ££££ to get building regs to sign it off.

Be careful about this. If he continues to use your property to access his, with your permission, I think it becomes an abatement of your use and will cause problems when you or he come to sell as you'll have to declare it.

Get some guidance on this. I suspect his extension is entirely illegal. A corollary is when people in adjoining houses what to remove, say, a chimney breast, they may need the agreement of the neighbour whose chimney/flue backs onto theirs, and probably building regs as well. We wanted to do this when in the UK, and it wasn't worth the hassle.

We had a manhole cover in our living room (rented property) that had been converted from an integral garage. The manhole cover was not sealed but the landlord had put some laminate put over it. A surveyor found it and bulding regs people told them it had to be properly sealed otherwise sewage could come up in the living room. The whole conversion was done without planning permission but thelandlord got retrospective permission just before it was sold.

I suspect something similar has happened here.

YANBU, but as the others have said, I'd be questioning the legality of the extension if he's blocked his manhole up.

I can remember my mum talking about the rigamarole they went through resurfacing their driveway so as not to breach access regulations. They wanted a gravel driveway, but had to stop the gravel further down than they'd wanted so that the cover wasn't blocked or impeded by the stones. Let alone if they'd wanted to extend the house.

Also, I'd be tempted to leave the hose in a black sack by his front door and ask him to clean it or provide a replacement - the note to be written on lavatory paper, of course...

I'd feed the whole thing through his letterbox.

Note worse then a blocked manhole imo

at 101damnations - with the other end down said manhole and pumping, I presume?

Well DH has chucked the hosepipe over the fence. Can't say I think thats the best way to keep neighbourly relations on an even keel but there you go. Will be interesting to see what happens now.

What a strange person. Did he think you wouldnt notice it??
And how bloody rude that he didnt say anything, saying sorry and getting a replacement wont be hard. That must have been disgusting

Any news?

No news. DH retrived the hosepipe so not sure if neighbours noticed it or not. He's chucked it in our wheely bin where its now annoying me as taking up most of the bin and we've just moved onto fortnightly collections.

I think that throwing away the hose pipe is an over the top reaction, although I too would be very annoyed with the neighbour, and would knock on his door and request that he either replace it or clean it up to be as good as it was.

And would def check out the manhole covering thing.