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Rain drain issues
Monday, July 21st, 2014 at 9:23 pm
The internal downpipes from the roof in our house have caused dampness and other problems for over a year. I finally found out why after I noticed it was leaking six hours after it had stopped raining.
First I chiselled a hole through the floor and discovered a void underneath where we thought there was bedrock. No wonder it’s so cold in this house all the time. It’s now a long term project to entirely remove the floor and insulate it.
After two hours of hammering through the wall from the back and removing bricks I discovered that the source of the dampness was a leaky joint three metres above the floor. So I drilled a hole in the pipe just to confirm the worst.
I drilled a hole lower down and emptied a lot of water out. Also I pulled out as much rock and sand as I could reach from under the floor and piled it outside the front door.
We don’t know where the blockage is, and don’t have time to smash another hole in the concrete floor to find out where the pipe ends up, so I superglued one end of the a hosepipe over the drill hole and pushed other other end into the hole in the floor under the other downpipe.
Now we go away to Austria for a few weeks. What could go wrong?
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