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You can get a discount on your water bill if they aren't taking away any rainwater though? Only fifteen years for you to get the £1,200 back.
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Does it have a bed of rocks underneath? I think you call them French drains or something here but they're called something else in Oz. Basically run the water far enough away and the loose rocks instead of soil at the end contains water while it soaks away (I presume that's what you're assuming it was meant to be)
Could you make it one?
Howard
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We have a drain under the downspout at the front of the house, it goes perpendicular from the house out towards the road. It takes the roof run off from me and my neighbour. It has always been slow draining but only ever a problem in massive downpours.
I got an extension for my Karcher K2 but could only get so far. Thinking mine was just weedy, I called in some pros, who then couldn't get any further either.
They came back out, lifted a slab, removed the U-bend and stuck a camera down and found a root mass.
They came back out with a picote milling machine and cleared the root mass, stuck the camera down again, only to find that the drain runs smack into a line of bricks, which were the old footings from the front yard wall. First thought was that whoever installed the old wall just cut through the drain. But we went and had a look at the next two identical houses (ours is in a run of four) and theirs just dumps the downspout onto the floor. So we now think the weird drain was a shit attempt at a soakaway or it was just put in for looks.
£1200 to clear a drain that goes nowhere. FML