Drainage Plans - Developer Not Playing Ball

Nitefly · 4 Nov 2017 at 23:54

Thread twist - OP built his own house.

NoobCannon · 5 Nov 2017 at 08:40

Vote name change to drain man

Destination · 5 Nov 2017 at 11:01

Nitefly said:
Thread twist - OP built his own house.

Plot twist, the OP and his wife have an irrational fear of teenage mutant ninja turtles.
No drains, NO drains, NO DRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glaucus · 5 Nov 2017 at 11:04

lookitsjonno said:
This thread should come with a warning on P1. Just read 4 pages of absolute bile and now my head is spinning

agreed, health warning needed.
achievement unlocked : insanity

SexyGreyFox · 5 Nov 2017 at 11:24

@Aruffell

For the love of whatever God, please answer, why do you think you have no drains?
Why would you move in a house with no drains?
Do you poo in buckets or through a glorified letterbox.

coolsurfer · 5 Nov 2017 at 11:36

His pooh goes through a black hole obviously

SexyGreyFox · 5 Nov 2017 at 11:39

Does anybody else think the OP thinks drains are something else?
Perhaps he calls 'drains' waste pipes or something else!

dowie · 5 Nov 2017 at 12:45

Hikari Kisugi said:
I assume he means run through, main drains, main sewers, or supply to properties behind them, or existing large scale storm drains.
I assume....

^^^this

Seemingly he wants to know if these plastic covers (which he's also annoyed aren't secured/fitted) are just for drainage from his property or are an indication that there is stuff servicing other properties running through his property after being assured by the developer that there won't be.

Unfortunately he isn't good at explaining himself and apparently talks like this:

Aruffell said:
after being reminded by my mrs that "wasn't we told we didnt have drains". I queried it.

Which probably doesn't help.

Of course, there is the possibility he genuinely believe he doesn't need any drains and perhaps thinks this exists:

Django x2 · 5 Nov 2017 at 18:15

dowie said:
Unfortunately he isn't good at explaining himself and apparently talks like this:

Which probably doesn't help.

Which literally translates to... " Was not we told we did not have drains"......

Caged · 5 Nov 2017 at 18:31

Nitefly said:
Thread twist - OP built his own house.

Groverdrains

Dirk Diggler · 5 Nov 2017 at 18:36

@Aruffell have you or your partner ever did a poop in your new house? If so, is the poop still there? If not, you have drains.

Seriously, the folk at Persimmons must be looking forward to your lawyers letter.

Jobe · 5 Nov 2017 at 19:44

I would say the frame isn’t fixed to the chamber. They should be by either using clips or screws through the lugs.
Op is concerned someone will steal his lid and frame.........

Aruffell · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:39

Wow this is hilarious. I was going to reply yesterday but thought I'd let this ride a little. Thanks for the comments

I'm still unsure as to how I can make this easier to understand. I'll try it in numbered bullet-points maybe.

When buying the house, we were told there was NO drains visible on our land.
We were told that all drains are in the street, not on our land.
Moved into the house, drains are visible on our land.
Therefore, we were either told the wrong thing by the sales team OR the developer screwed up and put visible drains on our land.

I'm really not sure what is so difficult to understand from this. No one is saying our property isn't hooked up to any drainage points. Do you honestly walk down the street and call a drain, a drain cover opposed to a drain?

I'll say it in layman's terms though.

The drain COVERS are not fitted to the big TUBE that goes under the ground.

I'm pretty sure these should have concrete holding them in place.

Hopefully that is at an IQ level that most of GD can understand.

Thanks for the laughs though and thanks to those couple who were intelligent enough to understand it.

Dirk Diggler · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:46

So to recap, they've forgotten to fix your inspection hatches properly and you've been demanding the plans to the property in response as opposed to just asking them to pop round and fix the inspection hatches?

Yea, it's everyone else that's stupid.

Aruffell · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:47

String said:
So to recap, they've forgotten to fix your inspection hatches properly and you've been demanding the plans to the property in response as opposed to just asking them to pop round and fix the inspection hatches?

Yea, it's everyone else that's stupid.

Actually I said to them:

"I believe these aren't meant to be here based on what your sales staff told me, so if that's the case, can you show me the plans and remove them. If that's not the case, can you show me the plans and fix them."

Either way, no plans have been shown.

mattyg · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:49

Aruffell said:
I'm really not sure what is so difficult to understand from this. No one is saying our property isn't hooked up to any drainage points. Do you honestly walk down the street and call a drain, a drain cover opposed to a drain?

.

Yes. Using the correct terminology will avoid situations above.

Using your own analogy. The developer was right. The drains aren't visible!

So what did the developer tell you? Drains or drain cover's

Dirk Diggler · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:50

Aruffell said:
Actually I said to them:

"I believe these aren't meant to be here based on what your sales staff told me, so if that's the case, can you show me the plans and remove them. If that's not the case, can you show me the plans and fix them."

Either way, no plans have been shown.

They absolutely need to be there, they serve an important purpose. If you ever get a blocked drain, you'll realise why. IMO you need to request the hatches get fixed and then get on with enjoying your new home.

Aruffell · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:53

mattyg said:
Yes. Using the correct terminology will avoid situations above.

Using your own analogy. The developer was right. The drains aren't visible!

So what did the developer tell you? Drains or drain cover's

I was using a generalisation that I assumed most would understand, clearly not lol.

Where does water run down your street? Down the road through the drain grate? No, you'd say it runs into the drain.

I even spoke to 20 other people about this on a persimmon bashing group

They all said "Yes, I have a drain that I didn't know about slap bang in my garden". They didn't say "Yes, I have a drain cover that I didn't know about slap bang in my garden."

Jamauk · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:56

I don't get what the issue is though. If it's something as simple as a drain cover, if it's in a paved bit of the property just get a matching cover - block paving has recessed covers so it matches with the rest of the paving and doesn't really stand out, if it's in an area to have grass on it just put a plant pot on it or something.

Steeps · 6 Nov 2017 at 10:57

Sounds like the developer didn't concrete/attach your inspection chamber edge because you were planning to supply your own to hide under your choice of landscaping so they couldn't be seen on your property. You'd probably be complaining more if there was a nice concrete ring around it sealing it in.

Get it fixed yourself, then stick a bird bath on top of it to hide it. Job done.

Drains on property is a thing, some sites will utilise underground soakaway chambers either on shared land or driveways which require manhole covers, some developers will use the edge of a property boundary for drainage instead of digging up a road, again leading to manhole covers on what looks like people's property but is also shared land. Neither of these are yours, you have inspection chambers which pretty much every detached house more than 1m away from a pavement will have.