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If you see my previous posts, I too have a downpipe drain that goes nowhere. Will be deleting it soon. Emptying into the ground right next to the house with no proper soak away es no bueno.
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I’d kind of assumed it originally went into a soakaway, even if now it’s all collapsed under ground.
Temporarily at least, I’ll just put a foot on the new pvc downpipe and it can go onto the concrete side passage and flow onto the lawn. Eventually I’ll unconcrete the side passage and maybe that will mean I find out whether it does go to a soakaway after all
jackbepablo
Got another edition of Jack’s Questions for the Hive Mind:
I have a gutter downpipe with a steel bottom section of about 2m. It was packed full with plant shit (new house, not my fault). I have chopped it off just above where it is concreted into the side passage floor, and pulled out as much Ultimate Compost as possible.
I had hoped it might then drain properly, toward a soak away. There’s another downpipe right next to it with no apparent problems.
It did drain, but I found a load of old ironwork in there. Upon pulling it out, it looks like the pipe empties into the depths of hell or potentially my foundations.
So my question is, does anyone know about soakaways? How far below ground would the elbow usually be?