Drainage investigation.. CCTV survey and build over permission.

[Gus Potter]

Hi all. 

 

From time to time I commission a CCTV drain survey to get build over permission. It comes with a report and a video, attached. Once the works are complete we do another survey which shows we have not damaged the water board assets when executing the works. As an SE I'm responsible for designing the foundations so they don't damage the drains in the long term.

 

Now, there are more explicit videos... but as BH is a family site... The video goes blank at times, even the camera has moral fibre. 

 

We can see quite a lot of ground water ingress at one of the joints, the water board still passed this as the structural integrity of the pipe was ok, I think.

 

If they had admitted their joints were failing that could have opened them up to claims.. it's a weird world. 

 

Build over permissions can be serious if you come to later sell your house. 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Gus Potter