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Building regulations?

  • 02-10-2012 10:28am
    #1
    rabb_lbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    Im currently living in an apartment that is relatively small, approx 3 stories high with penthouse apartments on top around 8/9 units in total. There are about 3 of these such blocks terraced beside each other.

    Im on the 3rd floor with two or three penthouse apartments above, and it appears as though the waste pipe from the toilets of the apartments above travel through the space between the plasterboard ceiling and the reinforced concrete roof in two of my bedrooms. It "sounds" like the waste drops hits a bend somewhere in my apartment and travels along and maybe into a ducting where i can't hear it any more. it makes a serious noise when it hits the elbow joint in the pipe and makes a right angle off somewhere else.

    Apart from waking me up at night, as it's fairly loud, it seems like a serious health and safelty hazard as if one of the joints along this pipe where to fail I would be left with my neighbours waste filling the space between the plasterboard ceiling and the solid concrete roof of my apartment which i can't imagine would be very pleasent and would be serious money to sort out.

    Does ayone know if this is in breach of a building regulation?


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    As far as I know, the pipes are meant to be inside a building once it is over 3 storeys. Part H of the building regs contains info on drainage and foul water.http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/BuildingStandards/FileDownLoad,1649,en.pdf


  • #3
    beyondpassive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭beyondpassive


    Probably best to get earplugs. If you open up the wals or ceilings God knows what you'll find. Missing fire barriers particularly. It could end up like priory hall.


  • #4
    shane6977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭shane6977


    No breach of Building Regs, just bad design on the part of the architect / mechanical engineer!


  • #5
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    shane6977 wrote: »
    No breach of Building Regs, just bad design on the part of the architect / mechanical engineer!
    Impossible to say that without having inspected the building.


  • #6
    shane6977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭shane6977


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Impossible to say that without having inspected the building.

    There's no breach of the regs in terms of the fact that there is nothing in the building regulations or the TGD that prohibits the running of drainage in the ceiling void, which is what I thought the OP was asking?


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