You are lucky to have a soakaway. (No not a Monty Python sketch), we have an
extra downpipe at a right angled corner near a door to stop the water
whizzing over the edge and onto unsuspecting callers at the door. This has
an angled pipe on the end going straight into a flower bed, now the Camilia
in there has gone berserk!

Brian

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Is it common for soakaways to be located at the base of the gutter pipe on
older properties?

Friend of mine is living in an old house (not sure of the age, early 1900s
perhaps?) and the downpipe from the gutter dissapears straight into the
ground.

Anyway, damn thing was bunged up with moss sludge, so dismantled the pipe
and shoved a hose down there, which backflushed the sludge out, but could
only get the hosepipe down about 10" below the ground.

Shoved the end of the my pressure washer down there, felt like I was
hitting stones. Couldn't see a bend in the pipe. But anyway, water seems
to be flowing now, although it didn't drop below the level of whatever it
was the end of my lance was touching, so couldn't see what it was and as
the area is paved, would have to dig it up to see.

So, is this pipe going stright into a soakaway you think?


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Simon T

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