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Our drain isn't overflowing, but I suspect it might be cracked as we have a lot of damp coming up in one wall and it's been a bit stinky the last few days. How did you diagnose? CCTV?
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Better get your wallet out if your getting someone out for CCTV, if it was me. Id have an educated guess and dig it up.
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How did you diagnose? CCTV?
9" angle grinder, lump hammer & bolster, and various digging things.
It wouldn't have been possible to get any cameras into the drain, as it was all ceramic & cemented in place (including the grill / cover).
I'd still have dug it up in any case - It's the only way you'll get to really see what is going on.
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How did you diagnose? CCTV?
How much is a cheap camera these days?
Pretty sure @stevo_com bought one. Idk if it's waterproof, but I'd have thought that would be the first move, then at least you have a gauge of whether someones just going to dig it all up anyway.
konastab01
NotThamesWater
hugo7
Finally got round to doing something about it yesterday
Replaced the cracked gully and pipe with some plastic from screwfix, and filled in with a load of different types of gravelly stuff (which, apparently, has to be of specific sizes).
Now I'm faced with the problem of having no idea what to do to finish around the gully.
I don't want to concrete against the wall, but I don'tt want the thing loose either.
I'm thinking of just rebuilding the original brick surrounds up again (but not with all the concrete that was there before) - All it needs to do is keep the water from splashing out, keep everything reasonably stable, and still allow me to take the top off the bottle trap to rod the drain if I need to.
Does that seem sensible?
(The remaining hole will be pea shingle over the pipe, then backfill the rest with earth.)