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Our plans clearly state that our sink waste was via a back inlet bottle gulley.  Exactly as the image from Wavin below shows.

Connecting soil and waste pipes to below ground drainage

The builder ignored my plans and instructions and decided to not put lintels in for the soil pipe to exit through the property.   I then had a long argument with him regarding this and he said that you don't do this and a bottle gulley is used in the old school way, with the sink waste exiting through the wall.  He's talking complete tosh and I have just sucked it up.

The one benefit is that it means one less hole in the Radon membrane to have to worry about the detailing for getting it sealed correctly, the downside is an ugly pipe (albeit on the Northern side) which is just a path at the back that you don't really notice.

But it's really niggling me and I am wondering whether coring a hole through the wall is going to cause other issues later on?

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It’s a bit crap seeing the pipe on the wall, but what stage are you at? Is the pipe no longer able to punch through and come up internally? 

 

Why are you having arguments?? You’re paying this goon, so stop arguing and start instructing him!

 

”Put the pipe here, don’t ask questions. If you can’t do it, I’ll get someone else who can (or will)”.

 

🤷‍♂️

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15 minutes ago, Russell griffiths said:

What’s the bottle gulley for ?

pipe down through floor and connect into a chamber. 
the only reason for the bottle gully would be if you had an outside tap positioned above it. 

Or a downpipe? If it’s a combined sewer that is taking rainwater?

 

If that’s a foul then it should just be going to a local IC.

 

Is this bloke older than Jesus? 

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I had the opposite.  A builder that was on the ball.  I had laid the drains expecting to have the sink waste out through the wall and into a bottle gulley.  He said no, lets do it properly and bring that one up inside as well.

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8 hours ago, ProDave said:

I had the opposite.  A builder that was on the ball.  I had laid the drains expecting to have the sink waste out through the wall and into a bottle gulley.  He said no, lets do it properly and bring that one up inside as well.

 

Ditto our builder 20 years ago.

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