"MrCheerful" wrote in message
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"Frank Fisher" wrote in message
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How do I go about doing this? I'm putting a new bathroom in, and the
soil pipe is too far from the old one to redirect - I know there is a
sewer running just below the garden (it's on the council charts) and
my guttering drain already flows to this. Can I route my guttering
elsewhere, hook into that drain (with some kind of seal around it) and
forget the issue, or do I need to dig down to the sewer and install
some kind of conenction there? The house/sewers are old - early
victorian. Or, is there a fixed charge for water companies to carry
out this work for me?

Any ideas?

It is rare for gutter water to go into a sewer.

It isn't in old houses and roads.

It can be quite tricky connecting into an old drain. If you have no
previous experience I would not recommend it.
Best bet is find an existing inspection cover and add a pipe into the
chamber below.

If the gutters are run directly into the main sewer pipe and it is a minimum
of a 4" pipe then this can be used for the foul drains. It is best to
insert a plastic inspection chamber, run the house drain to this and then
run a pipe from this to the main sewer.

The gutters can be run to a soakaway in the garden. Which is basically a
pit filled with hardcore. Again an inspection chamber should have the
downpipe run to it and the chamber drops to the soakaway.