No builders will work on someone else's property if told to bugger off by the owner. Too much hassle & potential legal costs etc. (It's not their battle.)
You could just park a car on the place they want to dig anyway ;-)
These people are just trying to bullshit your dad. Pillocks.
Not exactly recent. Several years ago.
In my village for some strange reason related to prehistory every sewage outlet inspection cover is on the adjacent properties land. This seems to have been a side effect of previous septic tank configurations.
The deeds reflect this need for access and refer to the original septic tank(s) on the plans and also the private water supply (now long gone).
Rules about shared sewers have changed fairly recently (last year?).
Fortunately for DynoRod, most people on shared sewers aren't aware of the water companies' responsibility
To be fair, when DynoRod found that a problem I had was in a shared sewer (which I didn't know was shared), they advised me to contact the water board next time.
Wonder what their call out time is? ;-)
That is surprising!
In my daughters case when her sewage, about a year ago, blocked only a few hours - certainly as good as Dyno Rod and free!
Peter
About half an hour when I called them the next time. When laying new mains, the gas company drove a wooden stake through the clay pipe and half blocked it. The water company have been advised of this both by DynoRod and their own chap, but nothing much has happened so far.
Thames Water come within 6 hours, 7 days a week. Less if you have young kids IIRC
In London, Thames Water (subcontracted out to Lanes) have always turned up within a couple of hours for a relative's shared sewer which kept blocking. After about 6 visits, a whole team came and spent a day jetting the whole shared sewer (about 8-10 houses I suspect). It's been fine since then.
Thank you all for the input. I'll pass your thoughts on.
Ours has a right angled turn that seems to have been designed to create a build up. Mind you, babies and teenage girls between us and the street don't help.
Good to know. Luckily I've never had problems I couldn't sort myself.
A sewer with a gently rocking manhole cover is not a job I'm prepared to tackle! Last time ours was done the 3 ton vehicle stopped in the middle of the road, unwound a pressure hose from a huge drum on the back and was gone in 5 minutes. Well tooled up
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