Spike47

The path has been sinking from the kitchen end over the years and the soil pipe has sunk along with it, so it has taken a long time to get to where it is, but it is very slowly still sinking, the house is ok, that is built on a concrete slab.

Most of that run is only water etc from the kitchen, only the last 500mm, where the toilet flush enters the pipework

Ha,Ha, more interesting would be a pic of my home made camera !

Just to say, this pipework is under a concrete path

Hi Have had a camera along the drain from inspection chamber to back of house drain that the roof and kitchen feed into and there seems to be a negative flow from about 3 meters from that drain that is only carrying water etc from kitchen, has per youtube vid attached, it is mainly due to some subsidence in that area due to soil etc not being compacted properly when drain and path where laid !. So the question is, will this need to be rectifed asap or not, there dose not seem to be any leaking from the pipe has yet !.

Hi Thanks for your reply , maybe I have confused the post a little , it is not really a basement , it is the room you come into from outside , but the lounge is upstairs , it is a 3 story building , the fire breast we want to remove has been put in at a later date and it is not supporting anything , it is just bricked up to the ceiling/floor joists . so the hearth in question is on the first floor , sorry for the confusion . cheers spike

Hi Thanks for your reply . But the timber form looks to be exactly the same has the original floor boards , and why would they chop out the center part of that form , second floor is just a open fire place . cheers spike

HiMy friend wants to pull down a fire breast in the basement , it is not the original , it is a brick built one , built around the original , have taken some bricks of to see if it is supporting anything and I am a bit puzzled has to what I am finding .Looking at the very top , it seems there is a concrete base base above it which looks like the fire hearth of the second floor fireplace !.The way I understand it is that there was some timber going across the top of the floor/Ceiling joists and that would of been the form to cast the concrete base for the second floor fire hearth ! .But it seems ( if I am correct ) that someone has chopped away part of that timber along with part of the Joist and stuck a couple of bricks from the new fire breast up to the concrete below the second floor hearth ! . I have no idea why someone would cut away the form for the hearth , then chock it with a couple bricks , it is making it difficult now to remove the breast , because I can not get anything in there to support before I remove them couple of bricks , then the whole fire breast !!Maybe the pics attached will explain it better meIt is quite a old 3 storey sand stone building The 2 bits of joist sticking out are just dummies , not doing anything .. The 2 bricks are only holding the second floor concrete hearth , nothing else , and the new breast is only bricked to just below the ceiling , it is not supporting anything at all .As I had said in my post , the breast we are wanting to remove is a new breast , the original breast is still there ( I think ) but it is not very deep and does not come out far enough to support under the concrere hearth ! .I just keep thinking why they would of chipped away the support form and a good part of the first joist , then stick a couple of bricks there , I just can't get it . Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/second-floor-fireplace.522531/#ixzz5n80HYumrcheersspike Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/second-floor-fireplace.522531/#ixzz5n7zssKxS cheers Spike