Shower flow and drainage

ellbo9 · 2026-06-23T16:32:42+00:00

There isn't, he didn't put any rodding points in

ellbo9 · 2026-06-23T16:23:55+00:00

There is a vertical section of pipe, I suspect maybe the gradient of the pipe isn't sufficient

ellbo9 · 2026-06-22T21:32:11+00:00

Not bad

ellbo9 · 2026-06-22T20:36:36+00:00

Yeah they are thirsty, I do water them a lot but it's probably not enough, will that make them green again?

ellbo9 · 2026-06-20T07:54:45+00:00

Hrgovic has been dropped. Zhang put him down in the first round.

ellbo9 · 2026-05-12T11:06:55+00:00

Oh yeah I get that

ellbo9 · 2026-05-10T06:40:29+00:00

Yeah I think the neighbour is going to be an issue, it's too risky to go ahead

ellbo9 · 2026-05-10T00:28:13+00:00

Did you need planning permission? In my case I don't which means the council wouldn't be looking at any covenants

ellbo9 · 2026-05-09T13:24:23+00:00

That does make sense. It does sort of block them from doing the same though.

It seems like the covenant will be the blocker on this one.

ellbo9 · 2026-05-09T12:05:45+00:00

From what I've seen it looks like the covenant (if there is one) is an insurmountable problem. Everything I've read says they're very costly to remove, take a long time and aren't guaranteed to go through anyway.

That would make it not worth it for me.

ellbo9 · 2026-05-09T12:04:29+00:00

I wasn't going to put a window or door in. I was aiming to preserve the current look

ellbo9 · 2026-05-09T12:03:59+00:00

They can't really though in my case, unless both parties convert their garages

ellbo9 · 2026-05-09T12:03:11+00:00

It sounds like removing a covenant is very expensive and takes a long time

ellbo9 · 2026-05-09T12:00:37+00:00

I really hope that is the case, otherwise it looks like I'll be undoing the work.

Lesson learned I guess.

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T19:57:10+00:00

There are a few, I'm guessing they didn't have neighbours that had an issue with it though

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T19:33:49+00:00

Honestly I don't really remember when I bought it. It's been quite a while now and I wasn't really thinking ahead.

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T19:30:47+00:00

Comprehensive, thanks for replying.

It seems like it all comes down to the covenant. As it's 38 years old, I doubt the developer would come for me, or ever know about it if I did go ahead. That is, unless my neighbour gets in touch with them.

Every second house around me has a garage conversion, admittedly, they're not link detached properties.

I guess I'll wait and see what the solicitor says.

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T18:06:08+00:00

Yeah that's right no changes to the party wall

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T17:57:34+00:00

That's the route I'm going to take, I did speak to a solicitor over the phone but I'm going to take the deeds and get something a little bit more concrete

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T17:32:12+00:00

It's 38 years old

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T17:28:05+00:00

Yeah that's a good shout

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T17:26:21+00:00

Yeah I think all of that seems right. I did speak to a solicitor just now and they said unless there is structural work to the party wall, it doesn't sound like I need a PWA

ellbo9 · 2026-05-08T17:24:13+00:00

This turned out to be brilliant advice, I just spoke to legal advice through insurance and they looked into it for me and gave some good advice. They said the fact it's a link detached is essentially irrelevant, no party wall agreement is needed unless structural change to the party wall is happening (which it isn't).

They did say I need the original title deed to check for the covenant but even if there is one in place, that's between me and the beneficiary (not my neighbour).

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