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@JacqueLucque
I'm poking around the front of our (rented, I may add) house trying to work out why the gutter downpipe drain doesn't drain.
It's a plain gully with no outlets on the walls. All I can feel is a series of four or five 'ribbed' small holes on one of the bottom edges of the pot. These are absolutely tiny – they can't be more than 5mm tall. I can't imagine how or why these would be a baffle?
What on earth is going on here? The house is victorian and the gully looks original.
The gulley sits inside a large filled retaining wall of sorts (we live on a steep street, being Bristol).
Unwilling to spend effort truly working out what is wrong, but would like to be able to tell our (amenable) landlord what's wrong so it can get sorted.
Incidentally, I've been telling him about the damp at the front of the house for years now. It's not a massive deal for us but it's clearly fucking his house. I suspect this is what is causing this.