What is a Wastewater chamber?
In most places, the sewers are separated. This means that your wastewater from the toilet, bathroom and kitchen is collected in a sewer pipe, while all rainwater/surface water from the roof, driveway, terrace and the like is collected in another sewer pipe.
Before your sewer pipes are connected to the common sewers out in the road, there is, in the vast majority of cases, an inspection chamber. If your sewers are separated, there are two drainage chambers. It is in the inspection chamber for your wastewater that the rat blocker must be installed. Your manhole cover is tight-fitting and can be made of concrete, stone, plastic or cast iron – but never a grate.
What does free access to the wastewater well mean?
In order to install the rat blocker, there must be free access to the wastewater well. That is, the manhole cover must be free of e.g. soil, sand, tiles, etc. and nothing must be placed on top of the well. If the well is located below surface level, the well must be dug free before the installation day.
How do I find the wastewater well?
There are different ways to find your wastewater well:
- If you have found a well, you may want to open the well and flush the toilet at the same time. If you can see the water trickling through the well, you’ve found the right well
- Find drawings of your sewers via your municipality. If necessary, use the digdat.co.uk and search for your address. Unfortunately, we do not cooperate with all municipalities.
- Most often, sewer drawings are part of the documentation when buying a house.
