About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every property.
With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe. Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.
Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a shared sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of clearing and repairing the sewers.
Colin Bignell