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Rain drain issues

Monday, July 21st, 2014 at 9:23 pm Written by:

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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Now we go away to Austria for a few weeks. What could go wrong?

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