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I 'sppose, it's a good day.
We've been having problems with the drains.
It turns out that the soil pipe from the stack to the drain had developed a fault, there was a little bit of water coming up around the stack where it enters the drive now and again when we flushed the loo..
Because there was a crack in the concrete of our drive, which had been there for decades, I suspected the pipe may have started to collapse.
A camera investigation on Saturday afternoon revealed that there was a big lump of concrete in the pipe that had been there since the house was built in 1965, reducing the flow by 50% all this time. No way could it be removed. Added to this you could see that there was a joint in the pipe which had become slightly off-set.
The firm returned this morning, cut into the drive, dug down four feet and replaced a section of the pipe.
All done and finished in a couple of hours and me the worse off by £450. But it was worth it for peace of mind.
You can't do without an always fully working toilet, "at any age."
We've been having problems with the drains.
It turns out that the soil pipe from the stack to the drain had developed a fault, there was a little bit of water coming up around the stack where it enters the drive now and again when we flushed the loo..
Because there was a crack in the concrete of our drive, which had been there for decades, I suspected the pipe may have started to collapse.
A camera investigation on Saturday afternoon revealed that there was a big lump of concrete in the pipe that had been there since the house was built in 1965, reducing the flow by 50% all this time. No way could it be removed. Added to this you could see that there was a joint in the pipe which had become slightly off-set.
The firm returned this morning, cut into the drive, dug down four feet and replaced a section of the pipe.
All done and finished in a couple of hours and me the worse off by £450. But it was worth it for peace of mind.
You can't do without an always fully working toilet, "at any age."
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