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Hello All,

I hope that someone reading this message will be able to offer me some useful advice. I have just got a house built. The builders, the architect are playing the mutual blame game and I have been left holding the baby.

The main problem is this

Owing to unexpected water pipes found when the road was exacavated the manhole and the pipes leading from the property to the drains in the street had to be lowered by about 5 cm. As a result the drainage pipes - big orange things - placed by the builder are now at a level too low to allow for evacuation of ground water by gravity.

I have now been advised that I will need to install a drainage pump. The "professionals" have cottoned on to the fact that I need to get this done and prices they are suggesting are ridiculous. In any case I have run out of money so I need to do this job myself. Here is what I have

a. Drainage pipes laid in the trench around the house which has now been filled back.
b. Two large orange pipes and three smaller ones that rise vertically from the trench - presumably to be trimmed off once the landscaping work around the house has been completed.

I have been told that the easy solution would be to install a submersible pump through the lowest of the large diameter vertical orange pipes and connect it to the manhole.

Question - does any of this make any sense? Where can I read up more on what I should and should not do?

I am just starting off on this enterprise and will in due course learn more. In the mean time any help will be hugely appreciated.


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Pics would help.

The builders fault in my opinion for not setting out right, and in any case if he lowered the pipe at the road end the fall would be greater.

An Architect puts ideas on paper, they're indicative as far as actually doing the job, that is 100% the builder problem.

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Have you paid the builder all his money, I would insist he sorted it out at his cost. Remember you cannot get the building regs completion cert until the drains are connected and tested.

Be firm with them.

Good Luck

James


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