Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 12, 2009 8:54 pm Hi everyone. Along with our mortar issue, we're also having some plumbing/dainage issues with our builder. Again, I was hopeful for some feedback/advice if possible. Basically, one of the silt pits has not been located according to the engineering plans and also, in the plans, the two silt pits are supposed to have a discrete separate pipe & trench running around the house conecting the two silt pits as well as them just joining up with the same pipe as the downpipes. Follow? In other words there's two silt pits at diaganolly opposite corners of the house (in the plans). They both join up to the immeditae pipe that connects to all the down pipes running along side the house. But in the plans (and I have seen this in other plans), there is meant to be a separate, discrete trench running accross the front and down to the rear silt pit as well. The plumbers don't want to come back, insisting that the silt pits have been connected up to the down-pipe pipes (under the gound - then off to LPOD supposedly), and that is all that isnecessry. They claim that the extra trench & pipe is not neccesary. Does anyone know about this kind of thing? Our soil report says our site should be well drained. Is there a reason for this separate pipe? Should we insist they build it? Does it matter? A guy at the Plumbing Commission reckons the engineers "just put it in to make things harder than it needs to be". I was obviously not satisfied with this explaination. If engineers have drawn it, what is it's purpose? As I mentioned, I have seen this separate trench drawn in other plans from a different builder so, I can only assume it has a purpose. We'd be grateful for any opinions. Thankyou. Cheers Hi HomeOne, I'm in the midst of landscaping a cat run down the side of my house, and the recent rains have me wondering if I need to install some sort of drainage. I've… 0 12290 2 5861 I would find out how deep your clay base is and depending on the depth install a cut off drain which is more than a normal agi drain. Where the neighbouring walls is… 2 3150 |