I’m glad this wasn’t a 45 minute job in my diary. Sounds like the classic Friday afternoon job.. good work and channel 👍

Excellent Dez, the damaged section of soilstack will have to be cut out and repaired with a couple of slip couplings. 👍

Soakaway looks smart 👌 thankyou for sharing this.

Brillian video Derek. Watching most condensate videos, there's always a drain available. Your video demonstrates the hurdles involved installing a dedicated condensate soakaway, thanks for filming it. The effort of trying to install a dedicated hopper in the ground with it being so close to the foundation, there's probably too much to bust out to get that in and ultimately not worth it because the condensate is the only thing going into it. That and the fact that the electric is so close to the soil pipe you wouldn't really have room to fit the elbow. Does make you wonder how that slice ended up in the soil pipe doesn't it? Some Araldite should make short work of that, being as it's your own home I'd have thought that'd be ok. Thanks for the video.

Well, when I had a new boiler last year in the garage, the gas engineer ( reputable a registered) ran the condensate pipe inside the garage and out into a rain pipe that actually goes into a soak away in the garden somewhere . A good way away put in by the builder 45 years ago. Watching your stuff, which is fascinating, makes me wonder if anyone , apart from you, does anything right?

Brilliant video Derek, thanks again...!👍🏽

Thanks Derek great video 👍

Just a thought ,you could of just put a boss on that drain pipe

Cheers buddy. 👍

Does the soak away literally just soak away or does it need tied in to the. Drain

With the underground soil I would say the original installers were going to cut in a branch for the condensate but decided against it!

Slip couplers on the split soil if theres room? I've seen some flexi rubber ones with jubilee clips that look easier to fit in a trench. If not what about filling the cut with gripfill ? During the first lockdown I was doing a emergency boiler change and had to dig a soakaway as replacing SE: Mains water in to kitchen on the other side of the house, power cables in overhead, no drains that side of house. Safe to dig then: WRONG! Dug down 2 foot with a Iron bar and posthole tongs, and found the 25mmm blue mdpe main smack in the middle of the hole!, luckily just missed a strike with the pointed digging bar, what are the odds on landing straight on that in a large garden..........

love real situations, dig hole find stuff in the way, drill hole and drill too long, check inside and find you just missed a cable. wouldnt it be easier to get an office job.

I used to work for Drain doctor amd if someone bought a house with a collapsed drain, you could get it replaced and charge the bill to the old home owner for the damage they left behind. Buying a house includes everything, which includes the drains. I dont know your situation but give them a call and see what they say.

Nicely done. Are you going to incorporate an air break somewhere? I've seen condensate soakaways back up in freezing weather.

How often, should you check the soakaway? I have only ever fitted one, and wondered how you would check the limestone chippings and replace if necessary. I over came this by installing it a using by using manhole riser rings with a lid on top.

Bit of ct1 and that waste is good a new

I though you brought a new build house ?

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Did you put limestone chippings in the soak away.

Better is the enemy of good enough

dont understand when you found the UG soil pipe you still used a soakaway

Soil pipe looked like it had been cut through with a grinder. BTW wear your ear defenders or you'll end up with tinnitus!

Just stick a 150mm flexi coupler over the soil pipe

Electric should be a red duct, purple duct is Fibre or telecoms

Stephen Humphreys

Looks like land drain

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Steve ward

It's as much work as fitting the actual boiler now no extra time or money tho

While you're at it, drop the drain to its correct depth. Perhaps it froze and split being so shallow? Wonder what other dodgy workmanship this house is going to uncover? It'll keep your channel busy.

small job turned into a major job as your fixing other people bodge jobs, that never happens lol

You uncovered a drain pipe which can be tapped into for the condensate. Seems rather odd that you went to hassle of a soak away. Plus the drain pipe needed repairing. Far better to use a drain pipe if you can. Very strange decisions.

It’s a shitshow Mama.😉

Always cat scan before digging!

Pain in the arse. Condensing boilers. Let’s save the planet and use a condensing boiler. But look how much extra work and materials are needed to do the job. Waste of time and money. Shame someone can’t design a boiler that condenses through the flue

Why not strap on boss and connect to soil pipe