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>> show in your first. I didn�t have a gully like you show in your
>> first, there is a direct connection between the vertical square
>> tube and the round underground PLASTIC drain.
>>
>>> You, or someone else may have laid it underground in the 70's
>>
>> Yes, the very early 70s.
>>
>>> or even 60's
>>
>> No, because I moved there in 69.
>>
>>> but it it wasn't and still isn't classed as underground drainage
>>
>> Bullshit. Everyone used that plastic rainwater drainage when
>> I did mine, copying theirs. You can still see it to this day where
>> the underground PLASTIC drains come thru the broken out kerb
>> section into the street gutters. In those days the council required
>> roof drainage to either go into the street gutters or a soakaway.
> I know the context you are referring to,
You don�t actually.
> I've done it that way myself dozens of times, when there's a short run, a
> few metres to the garden wall and it goes through and onto the pavement,
Ours all go underground from the house wall
to the street gutter and go thru the KERB with
a gap broken in the kerb. And since you arent
allowed to build the house any closer than
30' from the kerb, its ALWAYS more than a few
meters underground from the wall to the kerb.
> not when it stays underground
Ours always does when it goes to the kerb.
> and terminates at a soakaway.
The length of PLASTIC pipe under the ground is
generally longer when it goes to the kerb than
when when it goes to a soakaway just because
the soakaway is generally in the back yard and
that doesn�t have to be 30' from the back wall
of the house. We normally only use a soakaway
when when the block of land slopes down from
the kerb so you cant use a drain to the kerb
underground from the bottom of the front wall.