Surface water drains. - Not sure how the system works.
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seanandruby
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X the use oif mirrors on pipework is an old trick to see if the pipe had a 'full moon'. It needs the mirror one end and torch t'other. Wouldn't recommend this to a diyer as it can be dodgy having to sometimes enter, or stick your head in manhole opening. Drain rods will determine the distance and either a cctv or a dig doewn is the only way for certain to tell how much pipe needs replacing.
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The mirror is at one end of the broomstick and the torch is at the other. Perhaps I didn't make that clear, but I didn't suggest for a moment that the OP climbed into or put their head into the manhole opening. This is what the broomstick is there to avoid.
If the drain is 18" deep at the end where it's 15' from this 'soakaway', (as the OP calls it) then surely the pipe, if it enters the soakaway at all, will be not far from 18" deep where it enters. Broomsticks are around 48" long, so there's no need to climb in.
It wouldn't be the first time that the OP has had the cover up and had a look.
Exsparky
The mirror is at one end of the broomstick and the torch is at the other. Perhaps I didn't make that clear, but I didn't suggest for a moment that the OP climbed into or put their head into the manhole opening. This is what the broomstick is there to avoid.
If the drain is 18" deep at the end where it's 15' from this 'soakaway', (as the OP calls it) then surely the pipe, if it enters the soakaway at all, will be not far from 18" deep where it enters. Broomsticks are around 48" long, so there's no need to climb in.
It wouldn't be the first time that the OP has had the cover up and had a look.
Exsparky
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