Who can I hire to check levels of sewer line?

Vim Fuego

I'm trying to get a diversion agreement for a foul sewer that runs across my property. As part of a feasibility study, Irish Water need to to know the levels on each side of the site.


As far as I know, I need someone to expose the top of the pipe on each side of the site. That person then needs to complete a level survey relative to the house.

Who could I hire to do this? Normally it might be building contractor, but I am in a bit of a catch 22 as I need to get the diversions done before I am in a position to hire a building contractor for the proposed build.

Any thoughts on how to proceed? Dublin is the location.

Gumbo

Building Surveyor or an Engineer.

check out www.scsi.ie and www.engineersireland.ie

Ronney

Where are the nearest manholes on the line?

If you can find one either side of your property you could check levels here and avoid the digging.

Hiring out a Dumpy level and watching a few videos on you tube and you would be able to give relevant dept to the finished floor level of your own home easily enough.

Vim Fuego

Ronney wrote: »

Where are the nearest manholes on the line?

If you can find one either side of your property you could check levels here and avoid the digging.

Hiring out a Dumpy level and watching a few videos on you tube and you would be able to give relevant dept to the finished floor level of your own home easily enough.

There is one manhole in our neighbour's garden and they have kindly allowed us to access in the past. The other manhole looks to be about 15 houses down in the other direction.

We had Dynorod out in the past as we needed to accurate locate where the pipe ran, however their report didn't give us any information with regards to levels.

Ronney

Vim Fuego wrote: »

There is one manhole in our neighbour's garden and they have kindly allowed us to access in the past. The other manhole looks to be about 15 houses down in the other direction.

We had Dynorod out in the past as we needed to accurate locate where the pipe ran, however their report didn't give us any information with regards to levels.

If you could get the Invert level (lowest part of pipe where liquid flows) at both ends you would be safe enough to assume its laid at an even fall between so pipe levels could easily be worked out at either side of your property. This should be ball park close enough for Irish Water.

Is there a plan for where the pipe will be diverted? If its a straight line running through 15 back gardens they may look for the whole line to be moved = €€€€.

Vim Fuego

Ronney wrote: »

If you could get the Invert level (lowest part of pipe where liquid flows) at both ends you would be safe enough to assume its laid at an even fall between so pipe levels could easily be worked out at either side of your property. This should be ball park close enough for Irish Water.

Is there a plan for where the pipe will be diverted? If its a straight line running through 15 back gardens they may look for the whole line to be moved = €€€€.

There is a plan for the diversion which we have mapped out as part of our application for planning. The team responsible for this at Irish Water have been really helpful so far with our questions. We're not at the point of coming to a diversion agreement yet but we have reasonable indications that they would be happy with diversions being contained on our land if the levels etc. can accommodate it.

I would not expect to be successful in getting 15 neighbours to allow me to dig up their gardens. In a lot of cases, a lot of those houses have already built over the pipes in the days when the council didn't seem to be concerned about it, so it wouldn't even be feasible.