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skinny
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Encouraged by the recent and unrelenting storms (during one, in fact) causing the leak-that-only-appears-in-heavy-rain to spout forth, I ventured outside one morning this week to finally see what the underlying cause was.
Ended up digging 3 holes and a trench in the front garden to find where along my drainage hadn't been connected by whoever installed it.
They had buried 3m of pipe from the house, and 1m back from the front retaining wall, but left a metre gap between the two for me to deal with years later. In the interim roots had totally filled the pipes, meaning I spent until sunset pulling the growth out with a drain rod before fitting new pipe to join everything up.
Good clean type 2 fun.