On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:57:53 UTC, a (Dave Baker)
wrote:

There was a good thread in uk.legal recently about sewers and how their status
in law depended on the date of construction. Prior to the 1920s (if I recall
correctly) or after that changed things considerably.

Shared sewers prior to 1937 are the responsibility of the water company.
Much to my relief one hot summer two or three years ago when the
inspection chamber where the two properties' sewers join, was filled
with sewage. Hot day, full to the brim. I was nearly physically sick and
I hadn't even disturbed the surface. Water company came out within the
hour and cleared it. We were lucky and were upstream; all we'd seen was
a slower emptying downstairs loo; the neighbour flushed the one upstairs
and it shot out of the downstairs one...

However, we recently discovered a hatch under a rockery we just removed
(to make space for concrete shed base; see thread on plastic sheds!). We
were able to modify the base to avoid it, but it strikes me it may give
us a similar problem to the OP...no idea where it comes from or goes. Oh
well, it's the weekend soon...

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