Neighbour being a bit unreasonable?

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Neighbour has some issues with drainage / surface water on his property.
It hasn't been helped by the local road dumping water into his property when there is heavy rain....
He has been on at the council / mp's and everyone he can think of to try and rectify the situation, but with no luck.
I arrive home to see a hole drilled in the wall which separates the gardens of our houses. Probably about 10cm in diameter...
When confronted about it he says he had no other choice, as he has tried everything else!

Within a few hours the area around the hole is now a puddle, with every other area around my house bone dry...
So it looks like his solution was to dump the excess water into my garden!

Anyone ever had any experiences with anything like this?
I have sent an email to my solicitor for advice and will likely go see the cab as well, but was hoping someone on here might have a similar experience.
 
His house sits about a foot above mine. So he has drilled from his lowest level diagonally downwards. I'm worried that properly sealing it will be difficult. As any water that gets into the wall will seap through and get into my garden regardless.
My wife won't let me speak to him as I know myself I will loose the plot!
I think it's a shared wall.
I like the criminal damage idea!!
 
Block it up, but with a small enough hole in your "bung" to insert a garden hose. Push your hose through, turn on the hose, and just tell him you are returning his water that must have escaped as you do not need it.
Keep it up for a few weeks.
 
Showboat said:
His house sits about a foot above mine. So he has drilled from his lowest level diagonally downwards. I'm worried that properly sealing it will be difficult.
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Buy a 4" pipe "pig" - they use them for blocking off water mains when they want to work "downstream".
 
If it's a shared wall, he's just done work without following a Party Wall Agreement. Look it up, there's lots of info out there, and lots of Party Wall Surveyors that will work for free and bill your neighbour. If it goes to court, he will have to pay as he worked on the wall without agreement with you, and he will be hit with all the costs. The fact that he did this on a shared wall without your agreement has basically put him in the wrong.

Just because he has a problem on his land, it doesn't mean he can just dump the problem onto his neighbours. If that had been sewerage, you'd be rightly angry. He's got to sort out proper drainage, and that's nothing to do with you.
 
Transam said:
Block it up, but with a small enough hole in your "bung" to insert a garden hose. Push your hose through, turn on the hose, and just tell him you are returning his water that must have escaped as you do not need it.
Keep it up for a few weeks.
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"You can have your water back! We don't want it!" :D

Just get some fast setting cememnt filler, it comes in silicone-like tubes, just squirt it in and then finish of the end with something flat like a scraper.
 
Shocking, that's really not on. Whatever happens next will affect your relationship with him so it's not going to be pleasant.
 
Before you go on the war path, was this standing water causing and flooding / flood risk to his house? If it were, he may have seen this as a last resort to avoid damage to his home
 
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