Our drains are overflowing really badly in the back garden between us and our downstairs neighbour so we called a plumber. He’s said it’s not just at our drain but the 3 other flats connected to it, and a much bigger blockage across potentially the whole top third of the street (although he can’t see where exactly the main problem is, he’s found a wadge of wet wipes a few doors up ffs).
We rent privately from the landlord and our contract states outside drains are his responsibility, our agreement is we fix things and bill it back to him. But this is seemingly a much wider problem. We’ve not had the chance to go round all our neighbours to check whether they want it fixed, we had to do it quickly to stop the sewage spilling out through our back door. Our downstairs neighbour called their Housing Association as well, but they couldn’t send someone out quickly enough.
Anyone have any idea how payment and responsibility works in this kind of situation - presuming we should just leave it to the Landlord to talk to everyone unless there’s anything we can do for now? The written report says it’s impossible to distinguish the cause of the problem between the four flats that share that drain.
