The Brew Cabin

I have a main collection chamber which collects all of the outlets for the house, near the house. The outlet runs under a new extension to another chamber (inspection?) at the bottom of the garden. We're having having problems with blockages and flooding of the collection chamber. I've rodded-out the pipe between chambers. However, the inspection? chamber seems to have a costant level of water in it. When flushing through the level then rasies and discharges through an outlet which is higher than the inlet. The inlet does have a level outlet which seems to be blocked-up with silt - after a lot of prodding the situation hasn't much improved. Is this normal? Does the level outlet need unblocking? How best do I sort out?

It doesn't sound right, John, but without seeing it for myself, I can't say what the best approach would be.

Just confirm that you have rodded the downstream section from the permanently flooded IC, haven't you? And that's made no diff?

My first suggestion, which might not be what you want to hear, is to call in a drainage specialist to see if they can resolve the problem. As a DIY'er, you;re limited in what you can acheive with rods and it might just need a blast from the jetter unit to clear the problem.

Two further Q's - have you located the next IC/MH downstream from the flooded one? And is this FW or SW?