i live on a street of 15 houses. i share a drain with 8 of them. i am the end house of the eight, so if any problems occur further down the street i get a blocked drain.
every few weeks my DH has to go out with drain rods - we have identified the source of the problem as my immediate neighbour - they have no man hole cover in their garden as their house has an extension that is built over it and their patio covers the actual drains.
My dh has to go next door but one and drain rod back to the neighbours house where there is a massive problem - it looks as though the neighbours drains may have collapsed, you can feel it with the drain rods, you hit something very solid, like a brick.
i have been round to see the neighbours, but he says he cant do anything because the drains are covered by the patio and the cover is under his extension. there is no access, but he isnt getting any problems - no he wouldnt cos the sewage backs up to ours!
i have asked nicely, but we want to put our house on the market and it will be seen on the survey - you only have to lift our drain cover to see the problem as it is constantly backed up.
where do i stand? can i make the neighbour do something about his drain? i dont see why my DH should have to keep unblocking for them, and its every few weeks it needs doing or it spills out over our garden.
i will be going around again to tell him that yet again we have had to rod his drains, but im getting fed up of it.
help!
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ThatVikRinA22 · 01/06/2011 12:41
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