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OT: advice? Stench and foulness!

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  • Started 6 years ago by unhurt
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  1. unhurt
    Member

    Question: if your near shut in next door neighbour in the flat with the filthy tattered never-open curtains who you've tried to say hello to but they won't acknowledge you has what appears to be and smells like a pool of mud mixed with raw sewage overflow in their garden (and I suspect flowing under the decking into my bit)... Where would you begin to make enquiries to have it not do that? I think it's been there all along but today is the first time I've been outside for any length of time when ground wasn't frozen. It's pretty bowfin. God knows what it will smell like in warmer weather. Obviously will start by chapping the door but since he won't acknowledge greetings in the hall I'm not sure where that will get me (or that he will have any means to tackle it. He doesn't look like things are great for him). Possible he doesn't know about it as he seems to only use the inside a corridor door. If he's a council tenant would it be the council that would be responsible for fixing whatever is that's leaking or backed up?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. chdot
    Admin

    If really sewage, try Scottish Water.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. unhurt
    Member

    Hadn't thought of that!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    Scottish water and then council? Sounds awful. Bet that wasn't in the estate agent's blurb.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. unhurt
    Member

    It wasn't listed as a feature, no. I am fretting!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. gembo
    Member

    Environmental Health still exist? For neighbour's blocked drains?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. Morningsider
    Member

    Scottish Water are only responsible for pipework up to a property boundary, after that it is the responsibility of the owner.

    Some useful information available at:

    http://www.scottishwater.co.uk/you-and-your-home/your-home/flooding-information/flooding-information-documents/sewer-drains-guide

    If the neighbour won't engage then go to the Council's environmental health department, as they have the powers to help sort this out:

    http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20137/health_and_safety/488/report_a_public_health_nuisance

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. unhurt
    Member

    Thanks @morningsider, I will do that.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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