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Post by rocketmanbkk on Mar 24, 2019 9:29:20 GMT
My mate lives in terraced 1960’s house. He wants a rear extension. These houses as I know have the soil stack internal.
So he asked me about moving it. It’s not something I’d do really.
He’s getting plans drawn up.
The rear must have the main soil stack running along which runs to other houses.
So can he just build on it so in effect it’ll be under the extension?
I don’t know the answer. Others in the road have extensions & im pretty sure no one dug up & relocated the main sewer.
Any experience with it?
If I see him I’ll take some photos
Thx
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 10:00:59 GMT
He will have to submit engineering drawings to the water board to get permission to build over it mate.
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Post by dickpuller on Mar 24, 2019 10:18:50 GMT
When two house drains join together it becomes a sewer. Generally the Water/Sewer Utility companies are responsible for sewers, so clarification would be required from them on construction over a sewer. Now, extensions to terraced houses over sewers are normally OK, but the foundations need to have a big fuck off lintal directly over the sewer, even if it’s way below the footings. Which makes sense, you don’t want the weight of the extension on the sewer & where the sewer is it’s not virgin soil either.
As for the SVP & drains in the extension, it really depends on the layout, sewer & drain invert. It maybe easier to connect to his own drain, as the sewer could be very deep. HTH
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Mar 24, 2019 10:46:55 GMT
Cheers all
I’ll tell him later
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Post by DIYDafty on Mar 24, 2019 18:03:25 GMT
I looked into doing similar. In the future if I ever go ahead with an extension I'm mulling over, I'd need a "build over agreement" from Thames Water. I wouldn't be building directly on top of though but even close by needs approval. Few hundred quid. There is a fair amount about it on their website. secure.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xbcr/corp/building-over-a-public-sewer.pdf
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