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Good idea, I'll ask next door. Been in London all weekend but I'll get more out of mine when I get back and see where neighbours goes.

If the type and location of their gully looks the same as yours, could you, with permission of course, try putting a drain rod down...

And yes downpipe was replaced around 15yrs ago when soffets and bargeboards were replaced

That's the plan, and well as moaning at united utilities as they haven't bothered getting back to me. Waste of space company Once it...

Just keep digging out all the earth from the drain. You will then see which way it is running. I would then get some drain rods and give...

I'll have a look at my water bill. I'll ring them today as well.

Your water bill will state whether your surface water goes into the public sewer. Otherwise it will discharge into soakaways. If there...

Apologies. No neighbours have no idea. We've lived here longer than anybody the neighbours apart from one next door, who are quite...

Have you asked the neighbours yet? It's impossible to say if it's a soakaway or not without investigating by some of the means already...

Ok some pics. I have no idea of the direction of the run, but garden small so could this still be a soakaway.... Last pic trys to show...

I am unsure as to what direction the drain goes to be honest. The distance I have dug down it's still a vertical pipe. When weather a...

A properly functioning drain, of any sort, will empty immediately. The fact that it did not means it is blocked. However the fact that...

Well if it shouldn't fill what's wrong with it, as it was obviously full.

Still awaiting United Utilities to send me any maps they have...... On another note, it rained quite hard Sunday night. Got up Monday...

On another note, as this has been like it for likely at least a decade with no apparent I'll effects, now I've cleared at least a foot...