All 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.
We 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!
Just a very short note to say a BIG thank you to Liam Lambert and Lee Hart for their great work! I’ll blog more later about what they both managed to achieve in one day, but just wanted to acknowledge a job well done. Thanks!
Well in an attempt to answer that question we needed to dig a few exploratory holes, 7 in
total! To make things even more interesting, quite a few had to go through quite a bit of concrete. Thankfully Liam Lambert and his colleague Lee Hart from GSD Lambert and Sons were on hand with the heavy duty gear.
There is something slightly un-nerving about watching someone dig your floors up!
