hi! I have a section of guttering that is solely to take the rainwater from my garage canopy. Trouble it, it then bends and then runs down the side of my house, then enters the next door neighbours drain. They have now changed their guttering from black to white and changed the down pipe that serves my property as they claim as it runs into the drain on their property, it belongs to them. Surely if this serves my property only, even though it runs into their drain, this pipe still belongs to my property? Help!!

On 24/07/2015 17:20, wrote:
hi! I have a section of guttering that is solely to take the rainwater from my garage canopy. Trouble it, it then bends and then runs down the side of my house, then enters the next door neighbours drain. They have now changed their guttering from black to white and changed the down pipe that serves my property as they claim as it runs into the drain on their property, it belongs to them. Surely if this serves my property only, even though it runs into their drain, this pipe still belongs to my property? Help!!

I can't quite visualise that. Any chance that you could upload a photo
somewhere, and post a link to it here?
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Sure! How do I upload a pic?

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Sure! How do I upload a pic?


Got to tinypic.com and click 'upload picture'

FWIW, I can't see a problem here, what difference what pipe the water goes
down as long as it ends up in a drain, if you are doing this to be petty,
you'd be as well to give up now, they've took responsibility for the pipe,
therefore it's up to them to maintain it in the future, you should be
thanking them.

Hi. Sure I can upload one. Not sure where I can post it though. Basically I have a short canopy across my garage which has a gutter running across it. I'm in a semi detached house and the pipe runs down the front of my house for about a foot, then a joint bends the pipe to the right and then the rest runs down the side of my house, joining the drain on the neighbour's land.. Hope this helps you visualise it.

It's the fact that a foot of the pipe is black, then the rest is white. It looks really odd

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Hi. Sure I can upload one. Not sure where I can post it though. Basically I
have a short canopy across my garage which has a gutter running across it.
I'm in a semi detached house and the pipe runs down the front of my house
for about a foot, then a joint bends the pipe to the right and then the rest
runs down the side of my house, joining the drain on the neighbour's land.
Hope this helps you visualise it.

Not really because no one knows what your house looks like, where in
relation to the house the garage or canopy is, which side it runs down or
why it would bend to the right

When the house was built, they forgot to feed the down pipe into a drain on my driveway. This was pointed out to the builders, so as the driveway had already been laid, they looped the down pipe around the side of my house and routed it into next doors drain

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hi! I have a section of guttering that is solely to take the rainwater from my garage canopy. Trouble it, it then bends and then runs down the side of my house, then enters the next door neighbours drain. They have now changed their guttering from black to white and changed the down pipe that serves my property as they claim as it runs into the drain on their property, it belongs to them. Surely if this serves my property only, even though it runs into their drain, this pipe still belongs to my property? Help!!


I have the same situation. The canopy is made of the front room bay
window, the porch and carries on above the garage ie it runs the
entire frontage of the house.

My neighbour doesn't have the porch and garage extensions, just the
bay. The drain is in the centre, offset a foot or two so it's clearly
on the left property, my neighbours.

I just looked, and on a similar pair of semis next to our pair, the
common drain is offset to the right property.
Perhaps it amused the architect to apply this degree of symmetry.
The gutters don't actually join, they both empty into a hopper on the
common downpipe. It's never caused a problem. between me and the
neighbours.



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That sounds identical to mine! It's just the half black half white looks weird. The guttering on my canopy is black, then there's a foot drop of down pipe, then it turns into a white down pipe. I think I'm going to have to change my guttering to white, so it looks better

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That sounds identical to mine! It's just the half black half white looks
weird. The guttering on my canopy is black, then there's a foot drop of down
pipe, then it turns into a white down pipe. I think I'm going to have to
change my guttering to white, so it looks better


Try paint, It will need undercoat and gloss to get to white from black.

If guttering and downspouts are shared as a feature of the design of the properties involved then generally both parties are responsible for the maintenance irrespective on whose actual property it is on. Our bungalow is an example being a linked detached to next door by his car port. Half our roof drains onto his car port which then drains into a gutter across the front of the carport ending in a downspout attached to his house the gutter and downspout are our joint responsibility although not the carport roof or the actual drain the downspout drains into. In our case this reponsibility is mandated by a covenant in the deeds. We also have the right to access his property to repair said gutter and downspout and sewers crossing into his property. Many semi's have downspouts at the front and rear boundaries of the properties and being shared are both owners responsibility even if they are sometimes offset towards one or the other properties to facilitate boundary fences as in my daughters new house. One has to take a pragmatic view of these things as in the days of cast iron pipes which required painting as to whose colour scheme ended up on the pipe. If the offending white section of pipe is on your property or on the boundary then surely you can negotiate with your neighbour. If the section of pipe is on their property then as long as it drains your gutter it is making their property look crap only. The only time these things can be an issue is if previous owners have come to a private arrangement about sharing features as new owners are not bound by these arrangements. An example being our neighbour with the carport, he uses it to hang washing, the lines are suspended from hooks on his wall and our wall. I have taken the pragmatic view that the previous owners of our house had given permission for this arrangement and in the interests of neighbourliness I have no issues with this. However, I would be peeved if he attached anything else to our wall without consultation.

Richard

On 24/07/2015 20:40, Phil L wrote:


Try paint, It will need undercoat and gloss to get to white from black.


One coat of a solvent based gloss changed my black downpipes to white.
It did however take quite a long time to dry. I suspect that the solvent
in the paint 'melted' the surface of the plastic pipe.


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That sounds identical to mine! It's just the half black half white looks weird. The guttering on my canopy is black, then there's a foot drop of down pipe, then it turns into a white down pipe. I think I'm going to have to change my guttering to white, so it looks better

Why no picture? it is so easy, subscribe to tinyurl, upload picture,
post provided url.

I can't go out and take a pic yet, as the pipe is by their lounge window. I'm waiting for them to go out

hi! I have a section of guttering that is solely to take the rainwater from
my garage canopy. Trouble it, it then bends and then runs down the side of
my house, then enters the next door neighbours drain. They have now changed
their guttering from black to white and changed the down pipe that serves my
property as they claim as it runs into the drain on their property, it
belongs to them. Surely if this serves my property only, even though it runs
into their drain, this pipe still belongs to my property? Help!!



And the problem is?

Mike

Well, on our block, there are only two downpipes on the two outside houses
of the terrace. This works fine most of the time, but with the deluges it
really does need all the houses to have installed their section of guttering
correctly so the flow goes toward the pipes. Sadly this is not always true,
and on the front of my house I have added a new downpipe to a soak away as
otherwise all the water from next door goes my way, hits a right angled
corner and descends on anyone at the front door!
Now a busy body council man tells me that my soak away is not correct, but
I just acted dumb and have heard no more.

grin.
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hi! I have a section of guttering that is solely to take the rainwater from
my garage canopy. Trouble it, it then bends and then runs down the side of
my house, then enters the next door neighbours drain. They have now changed
their guttering from black to white and changed the down pipe that serves my
property as they claim as it runs into the drain on their property, it
belongs to them. Surely if this serves my property only, even though it runs
into their drain, this pipe still belongs to my property? Help!!

On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:12:13 +1000, F Murtz
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That sounds identical to mine! It's just the half black half white looks weird. The guttering on my canopy is black, then there's a foot drop of down pipe, then it turns into a white down pipe. I think I'm going to have to change my guttering to white, so it looks better

Why no picture? it is so easy, subscribe to tinyurl, upload picture,
post provided url.

ITYM tinypic.com, and no registration is required.
(Which, incidentally means you can never delete them should they
become an embarrassment).


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