Regular visitors to the practice will have noticed that progress on the disabled access ramp and front of the building seems to have stalled. We developed a problem with our drains and were keen to make sure we did not build over a man hole cover that might be needed in the future. Our drains have a history of blocking easily. This has been mainly due to our neighbours, their drains pass directly under the surgery and merge with ours before reaching the main sewer in the road.
No sooner was that problem sorted than we discovered a problem with our water main. The pipe installed when the practice was built was only 15mm in diameter, it should be 25mm. Ir was also only buried 29cm deep, it should at least 75cm according to modern regulations.
You can see in the photo below the new man hole cover to allow access to the drains. The new water main is the blue pipe and the existing very small bore copper pipe can be seen next to it.
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