Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:51 pm
Hi all, joined the forum in the hope someone may be able to help me with my drain repair? I volunteered to help my son with what is probably a simple job to most, but to be honest I am totally stumped as to what I need and then how to go about it.
My son bought an old Victorian terrace recently and not long after discovered that even in dry weather it was always had water sitting in a small hole just above the hopper. He asked me to take a look and I discovered it was leaking from the plastic soil pipe which connected into the socketed clayware in the ground. I think it may have been damaged in the past and they used probably a sand/cement mix to repair it, but it must have failed with time and started to leak around the hopper.
Would be appreciated if someone could advise me on what I need and also how I go about fixing this or would I be better getting in a specialist? One last thing I noticed that the manhole cover was falling apart would I be able to buy just a new lid or would I have to buy the frame as well? Manhole cover was 580mm x 580mm.
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Jimmy
My son bought an old Victorian terrace recently and not long after discovered that even in dry weather it was always had water sitting in a small hole just above the hopper. He asked me to take a look and I discovered it was leaking from the plastic soil pipe which connected into the socketed clayware in the ground. I think it may have been damaged in the past and they used probably a sand/cement mix to repair it, but it must have failed with time and started to leak around the hopper.
Would be appreciated if someone could advise me on what I need and also how I go about fixing this or would I be better getting in a specialist? One last thing I noticed that the manhole cover was falling apart would I be able to buy just a new lid or would I have to buy the frame as well? Manhole cover was 580mm x 580mm.
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Jimmy