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SMHarman · 17-08-2005, 22:47

My experience here...

My house is the final 200 ft of drainage for 4 houses 3+mine, originally the other half of my semi and then when a developer built two houses next to ours a previous owner permitted them to attach into our drainage, so a 4in clay pipe serving 4 houses - great.

Any blockages in that pipe are the shared responsiblity of all four houses. Once it meets the Thames water sewerage pipe it is their problem.

The only problem we had was when my builders managed to get building rubble in it, so it was only fair I paid to clear it, but a general blockage in that pipe would be shared 1/4ly.

17-08-2005, 22:47	#5
SMHarman Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Services: Cablevision Posts: 8,305	Re: Communal drain - liability My experience here... My house is the final 200 ft of drainage for 4 houses 3+mine, originally the other half of my semi and then when a developer built two houses next to ours a previous owner permitted them to attach into our drainage, so a 4in clay pipe serving 4 houses - great. Any blockages in that pipe are the shared responsiblity of all four houses. Once it meets the Thames water sewerage pipe it is their problem. The only problem we had was when my builders managed to get building rubble in it, so it was only fair I paid to clear it, but a general blockage in that pipe would be shared 1/4ly.