Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:22 am
Sorry for so many separate posts, I'll make this the last one.
Again, below is the overall plan
Manholes 1, 2 and 3 are pretty much redundant. The kitchen used to be a utility room at the front and a kitchen at the back. The rooms were knocked into one big kitchen and the plumbing no longer takes waste water out to manhole 1.
However, the condensate pipe from the boiler does go straight through into manhole 2.
Manhole 4, (below), is in a very awkward position. As you can see I have temporarily laid a paving slab over some bricks as we need a step to get in the house comfortably.
There isn't enough room with that ugly manhole to get a step of any kind built. The only way I can see is to have the manhole moved. The kitchen will be revamped also so I don't mind if the waste gully has to be moved.
I presume that this would be beyond DIY but is it likely to be extortionate? Or is there another suggested way to have a nice looking drain cover and be able to have a step?
The whole of the drive will eventually be dug up in the not too distant future and laid with tarmac or a bonded resin type drive. I will need some kind of french drain or similar as it runs downhill toward the house.
Because of the condensate in MH.2 does this branch of drain from MH1 round to MH3 need to remain open? If it were blocked off would the condensate be so little as to evaporate within MH2? The reason I ask is that MH3 is unsightly and will have to be replaced with the new drive or better still if it could be removed with the drain being blocked off.
Again, below is the overall plan
Manholes 1, 2 and 3 are pretty much redundant. The kitchen used to be a utility room at the front and a kitchen at the back. The rooms were knocked into one big kitchen and the plumbing no longer takes waste water out to manhole 1.
However, the condensate pipe from the boiler does go straight through into manhole 2.
Manhole 4, (below), is in a very awkward position. As you can see I have temporarily laid a paving slab over some bricks as we need a step to get in the house comfortably.
There isn't enough room with that ugly manhole to get a step of any kind built. The only way I can see is to have the manhole moved. The kitchen will be revamped also so I don't mind if the waste gully has to be moved.
I presume that this would be beyond DIY but is it likely to be extortionate? Or is there another suggested way to have a nice looking drain cover and be able to have a step?
The whole of the drive will eventually be dug up in the not too distant future and laid with tarmac or a bonded resin type drive. I will need some kind of french drain or similar as it runs downhill toward the house.
Because of the condensate in MH.2 does this branch of drain from MH1 round to MH3 need to remain open? If it were blocked off would the condensate be so little as to evaporate within MH2? The reason I ask is that MH3 is unsightly and will have to be replaced with the new drive or better still if it could be removed with the drain being blocked off.
Thanks Pablo. That sounds like a great idea. (Don't joke, my neighbours are Jehova's Witness's!)