Posts Tagged ‘Drains’

Land Drain and More Drain Repairs

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Drain RepairsAll of our money so far in this house seems to be going underground! We discovered that the down pipes off the back off the house were also blocked, so we had no choice but to get these repaired and renewed.

Fortunately Liam Lambert was available once again to help us out, and once again the house looked like a temporary building site with huge piles of sand, stone and shingle standing on the driveway.

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One Man and His JCB! (Well two men actually)

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Drain repairs from downpipeWe noticed soon after we had purchased Waterloo Farm that the downpipe from the existing kitchen was not actually taking the water away from the house, but it was just ‘appearing’ out of a brick in the house! We then discovered that the drain was totally blocked with mud and silt. We had hoped that a simple ‘rodding’ of the drain would fix it, but this proved impossible so we only had one choice, to dig it up! So on Saturday afternoon Liam and Lee were back, and very helpfully with a shiny JCB!

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