In a house I am about to renovate, there is a strange plastic pipe in
the outside toilet. My house has flat-roofed kitchen extension
including the loo, and next door has an ajoined pitched roof extension.
There is a black plastic drainpipe running the width of my outside loo,
terminating in a grille on the outside wall next to the door. The other
end of the pipe seems to go into the wall, as if it is going through to
next door, but I cannot see if it goes in or not without digging out
some brick etc. Eventually I will be able in investigate properly, but,
has anyone seen anything like this, or know what it could be ?

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| _____ |
ventilation | | | |
grille - :===========| - plastic drainpipe
| | | | above toilet bowl
| | loo | | about 4 feet from floor
my | ( ) |
patio | ~~~~~ | party wall
\ | and unknown
door \ | things nextdoor !
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Cheers,
Simon.

wrote:
In a house I am about to renovate, there is a strange plastic pipe in
the outside toilet. My house has flat-roofed kitchen extension
including the loo, and next door has an ajoined pitched roof extension.
There is a black plastic drainpipe running the width of my outside loo,
terminating in a grille on the outside wall next to the door. The other
end of the pipe seems to go into the wall, as if it is going through to
next door, but I cannot see if it goes in or not without digging out
some brick etc. Eventually I will be able in investigate properly, but,
has anyone seen anything like this, or know what it could be ?

Must be ducting of some form; my guess is that next door's extension was
built before yours, and the grille you see was formerly attached to what
was formerly the neighbour's outside wall. Then when your extension was
built it was necessary to duct the grille to the outside again; if so,
it all sounds a bit Heath Robinson. As to what's purpose is - who
knows; an extractor fan next door? Might even be redundant, if you're
lucky.

Can't you just go round and ask them what they have on their side of the
party wall?

David

Can't you just go round and ask them what they have on their side of the
party wall?
I will be, since I will be knocking down my extension and building a
larger
one with a pitched roof level with theirs, against their wall (not sure
if party,
or just on their side). My extension looks much older than theirs, so
it may be
redundant. I could try shouting "hello" down the pipe and see if a
little voice
shouts back !
Simon.

Owain wrote:
wrote:

Can't you just go round and ask them what they have on their side of the
party wall?

I could try shouting "hello" down the pipe and see if a
little voice shouts back !


You could introduce a rat into the pope and see if there are any screams

Owain


I should think the pontif would scream if the OP did that!

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Owain wrote:

wrote:
Can't you just go round and ask them what they have on their side
of the party wall?
I could try shouting "hello" down the pipe and see if a
little voice shouts back !

You could introduce a rat into the pope and see if there are any
screams

Owain

You mean a sort of Rat-Singer? g
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Owain wrote:

wrote:
Can't you just go round and ask them what they have on their side
of the party wall?
I could try shouting "hello" down the pipe and see if a
little voice shouts back !

You could introduce a rat into the pope and see if there are any
screams

Owain

You mean a sort of Rat-Singer? g

Ouch :-)

Owain wrote:

Set Square wrote:

You could introduce a rat into the pope and see if there are any
screams

You mean a sort of Rat-Singer? g

Very good.

s/pope/pipe

Alternatively: /s/rat/gerbil ... :~)

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Andy