Looking for advice

heartofarebel

Hi, I'm looking for a bit of advice. My sister-in-law has recently built a house on our old garden. The original builder made a mess of plumbing a downstairs toilet. The new builder now wants to connect the waste pipe form the toilet to our kitchen sink outlet which is in our lane way dividing the two houses. Can anybody tell me is this even legal to do.

muffler

This needs a thread of its own but please note we dont allow discussions on the legal end of things.

Cheers

Poor Uncle Tom

We need a bit more detail,

Is it all one property or two seperate properties?
Is it Septic Tank, Treatment System or Mains Sewer?
Is there a grease trap at the kitchen outlet?
Urban or Rural setting?

heartofarebel

Hi Tom, it is 2 seperate houses with the new build now on my old side garden. The builder wants to run a waste pipe from a downstairs toilet into a shore that has my kitchen sink and downpipe leading into it. My worry is that the waste from the toilet could lodge in the shore and cause smells been only approx one and a half foot down. The pipes do lead down to the main sewerage that is further down in my garden. We're in an urban setting.

Poor Uncle Tom

Without getting into the difficulties or otherwise of making such a connection the simple answer is that if they are two seperate properties then, in order to register clear title all services should be within the boundaries of their own respective sites.

Connecting the drainage pipework from one property through the drainage system of another property is shoddy work, arrived at by cutting corners. If a blockage occurs in your kitchen drains, who caused it? who is responsible for clearing it? will your neighbours have rights to open up your drains to clean it out?
Rights of way, leaways or easements all have to be registered as burdens on a property title, would this affect the value of your property?

Sorry to drag out the point, but it isn't as simple as connecting one pipe to another and forget about it in order to save a builder some work.

heartofarebel

Thanks for all the advice Uncle Tom. It has made my mind up. I was very apprehensive about letting it go ahead and you raised the points that I had questions about. It was all about saving space in a downstairs toilet. The original builder took short cuts with the plumbing and now the new builder is trying to sort out the best thing for the sister-in-law. Again thanks for your help.