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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:16 pm
by george the baldy handyper
Hi, I need some advice. My neighbour has kindly left, when having a new pavior drive layed, a 4" drainage pipe just on my side of the fence. I woud like to fit some kind of gully to it, but have a couple of problems. Firstly, the top edge of the pipe is only 2" below the drive's top level; secondly, The pipe is cut at a sharp angle (on the horizontal plane) and as it is just barely on my side of the garden I can't really cut it without disturbing said neighbours shiny new driveway (Which incidentally is about 3" higher than mine); and thirdly (and related to the last point) I cannot fit a male fitting over the end of the pie for the same reason.
Ay ideas. I'm stumped. (By the way, the pipe I think is about 4'-5' feet long and terminates in the storm drain pipe in my neighbour's.)
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:35 pm
by Tony McC
My advice would be to read the Brew Cabin rules and not post the same question by email and then post it here. It really, really upsets my constitution and has been known to cause outbreaks of colourful language. I have enough to do without having to plough through duplicate messages. It should not come as a surprise to hear that I won't be replying to your email.
A second piece of advice would be to brush up on metric units. This is the 21st century, after all, and we no longer work in feet, inches, bushels, groats, cubits, farthings, pecks or any other olde-worlde units.
With only 50mm of cover, the drainage pipe is too high to be properly protected, especially beneath a driveway. Further, it's unlikely you'd be able to generate fall, so how would any successful connection actually function? And what's a male fitting? Underground drainage uses couplings, which, if they have any gender at all, could only be considered as female.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:56 pm
by danensis
I don't understand the OP's problem. Is he saying the neighbour has arranged a pipe to discharg onto his property, or is he saying that the neighbour has cut through a drain that originally served the OP's property? In the former case I would suggest he should arrange for the disposal of his own water (!) and in the latter case I would think that it was a breach of an easement, and a stern letter should follow.
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:46 pm
by Tony McC
As I understand it, the neighbour has left a tail protruding into the OP's property. I think it was intended as a kind gesture to aid drainage, but at that sort of depth (depth doesn't sound right for summat that has only 50mm of cover!) it's unlikely to be of much use!