Neighbor building extension under sewer line

Treppen

So we have a somewhat cold relationship with neighbors and I'm thinking they are going to go ahead without informing/considering us. Heard builders discuss it with them in their garden.

We are at the start of the line with them second (in a block of 4 ). I presume the builders will have to block ours up while they build the extension as the line is pretty close to their back door.

Do we have a right to have functional waste water uninterrupted, or can they do what they want because it's a 'private matter between 2 neighbors'?

Anyone experience this?

turbbo

presume you mean over sewer line? or is the extension a basement extension?

Treppen

turbbo wrote: »

presume you mean over sewer line? or is the extension a basement extension?

Ya sorry sewer line will be "under" the extension.

Metric Tensor

Any half decent builder is capable of keeping the sewer live throughout the build. About 10 minutes max closure (you won't even notice) to temporarily divert it at the start then the reconnection should have no dead time.

That's if they divert it at all.

I'd be much more worried that the final configuration in which they leave it is not something that will cause blockages or back ups on your side.

Treppen

Metric Tensor wrote: »

Any half decent builder is capable of keeping the sewer live throughout the build. About 10 minutes max closure (you won't even notice) to temporarily divert it at the start then the reconnection should have no dead time.

That's if they divert it at all.

I'd be much more worried that the final configuration in which they leave it is not something that will cause blockages or back ups on your side.

Ok thanks.

Just out of interest, if a blockage occurs after your section in someone else's section, who pays?

NickNickleby

Treppen wrote: »

Ok thanks.

Just out of interest, if a blockage occurs after your section in someone else's section, who pays?

ohhohoho!!!!

On our road, the 30+ houses on our side are divided into groups, each group having its own shared sewage line. Our line was having terrible trouble a few years ago. Frequent (as in yearly) visits from DynoRod were needed. Basically, there was a location in the line where debris could catch and cause a blockage. It turned out that the rented house with a young family were the culprits. They were throwing disposable nappies into the toilet.

Anyway, there was some grumbling, but I wrote diplomatic letters to everyone on the line saying that it was a shared resource and as such any expenses should be shared by us all (including the houses with pensioners). Guess who didn't pay, so the letter was sent to the landlord who stumped up every time.

Eventually, remedial works costing a couple of hundred per house , were completed. Everyone paid. Including the landlord. Good neighbours. BTW, the blockage wasn't on my property, but I'm the best writer of begging letters:D:D)

I know a family who moved, because they had horrid neighbours, and whenever the sewer overflowed into their garden because of a block further down, no one ever contributed to the cost of unblocking it (this was just one example of bad neighbourliness).