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Offline robbo

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Interesting Downpipes
« on: April 04, 2014, 05:30:16 PM »
hi guys, came across this place and noticed the 40mm downpipe connections, never seen this arrangement before i bet the gutters overflow in a downpour, cheers

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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2014, 08:44:09 AM »
Holy s*it. Whomever decided to do that obviously was never trained correctly or at all.

I'm guessing you informed the owners and asked if it overflows in heave rain?.
Convert it to a job to rectify perhaps?
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Re: Interesting Downpipes
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2014, 09:17:30 AM »
hi guys/Rodza1, no i was working next door and couldn`t believe that someone would put 40mm down pipes that disappear into the  house and the amount of water that would try to get down them in a good amount of rain, must have been designed by an architect and approved by the council i would have thought,cheers
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Re: Interesting Downpipes
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2014, 10:30:10 AM »
Thats insane. i did a job where internal 65pvc downpipe blocked, 40 would be so much worse
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Re: Interesting Downpipes
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2014, 10:43:22 AM »
looks like someone forgot to allow for extra drains when they did the extension - at least they put an overflow in...      :P
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Re: Interesting Downpipes
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2014, 10:25:37 AM »
There's an access point on that elbow discharging into the gutter, hope its not the WC lol.
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