Plumbing

Mid terraced soil pipe shared with neighbour

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.42 PM

We live in a mid terraced house where the bathroom soil pipe comes down from the bathroom and goes horizontally through the party wall to meet with our neighbour's soil pipe where they have the down pipe part on their side. Effectively like a T shape where we have the left arm and the down part and right arm are next door in the other side of a brick wall. The pipe, I think then goes straight down presumably into the main sewer. There isn't a man hole in their front garden, but we have been told it does go out through the front. We are looking to install a downstairs toilet in the room where the soil pipe goes horizontally (at ceiling height) We can get a macerator to push up into the pipe on our side, but I'd like to know if there are any other possibilities? Presumably we could look at getting a new pipe from our house dug and connected to the mains sewer? What does that involve and what's a ball park cost? We are willing to pay more to have a mains connection and avoid the negative sides of having a macerator! Thanks.