I have a selfish eejit for a neighbour.......
I have a brick built rodding chamber behind my house. At the moment, it is covered by a precast concrete slab and its worked fine for the past 50 years or so. Problem is that my eejit neighbour has done works to a plot of ground he owns, (and other ground that he doesn't), creating surface waterflows which now end up in my ground.
The drains have worked perfectly up until now, BUT the concrete slab does not fit perfectly level in top of the brick built chamber, (so if you stand on it you can make the slab wobble a bit by moving your weight around on it). Now when it rains, the surface water is coming down and slowly washing soil and small stones into the slight cracks between the concrete slab and the top of the brick walls of the chamber. These stones and soil end up falling into the drain through the rodding point and my drains get blocked!
The cover is not a standard size, so I cant simply replace it with a shop bought metal one with a rubber seal around it, as the 450x600 standard is way bigger than the dimensions of the chamber.
Does anybody have any advice about what I can do to deal with this?
Is there any product out there that I could use to seal the gap, but still allow me to lift the slab in the future if need be?
I was wondering about some kind of rubber foam that I could fix to the tops of the brick walls, but maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and there is a much easier and more sensible solution out there.
If anybody has any advice it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.
I have a brick built rodding chamber behind my house. At the moment, it is covered by a precast concrete slab and its worked fine for the past 50 years or so. Problem is that my eejit neighbour has done works to a plot of ground he owns, (and other ground that he doesn't), creating surface waterflows which now end up in my ground.
The drains have worked perfectly up until now, BUT the concrete slab does not fit perfectly level in top of the brick built chamber, (so if you stand on it you can make the slab wobble a bit by moving your weight around on it). Now when it rains, the surface water is coming down and slowly washing soil and small stones into the slight cracks between the concrete slab and the top of the brick walls of the chamber. These stones and soil end up falling into the drain through the rodding point and my drains get blocked!
The cover is not a standard size, so I cant simply replace it with a shop bought metal one with a rubber seal around it, as the 450x600 standard is way bigger than the dimensions of the chamber.
Does anybody have any advice about what I can do to deal with this?
Is there any product out there that I could use to seal the gap, but still allow me to lift the slab in the future if need be?
I was wondering about some kind of rubber foam that I could fix to the tops of the brick walls, but maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and there is a much easier and more sensible solution out there.
If anybody has any advice it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.