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JJ
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I've recently bought a new duplex house and last Friday I was shocked to discover a pile of raw sewage backing up from one of the drains in my back garden.
The drain the sewage was coming out of was supposed to be the drain for rain water from the gutter on the roof. The dyno-rod guy who came out to unblock it told me that the set up was faulty. He said sewage should not be going into this drain in the first place as this drain has a u-bend and it will always block up (not to mention the fact that it's covered only by a grill).
I then had the builder and his plumber out who conceded the drain was set up incorrectly. They propose to solve it by converting the drain into a proper sewage drain (i.e. taking out the u-bend, hooking it up to another sewage pipe, and covering over where the grill is with concrete). They will divert the gutter pipe to a different drain.
My concern is that the pipe feeding the drain with sewage from the toilets is also feeding the drain with waste water from the bathroom sink, bath, ensuite sink, and shower. The proposed solution by the builder will leave this set up intact and will result in the waste water running directly into the sewage pipes.
My question is; shouldn't waste water from sinks/baths be piped into drains that are separate from the sewage? Has anyone had a similar experience and if so, how did you deal with it? I imagine that putting this right may be a very big job.
The drain the sewage was coming out of was supposed to be the drain for rain water from the gutter on the roof. The dyno-rod guy who came out to unblock it told me that the set up was faulty. He said sewage should not be going into this drain in the first place as this drain has a u-bend and it will always block up (not to mention the fact that it's covered only by a grill).
I then had the builder and his plumber out who conceded the drain was set up incorrectly. They propose to solve it by converting the drain into a proper sewage drain (i.e. taking out the u-bend, hooking it up to another sewage pipe, and covering over where the grill is with concrete). They will divert the gutter pipe to a different drain.
My concern is that the pipe feeding the drain with sewage from the toilets is also feeding the drain with waste water from the bathroom sink, bath, ensuite sink, and shower. The proposed solution by the builder will leave this set up intact and will result in the waste water running directly into the sewage pipes.
My question is; shouldn't waste water from sinks/baths be piped into drains that are separate from the sewage? Has anyone had a similar experience and if so, how did you deal with it? I imagine that putting this right may be a very big job.