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Are Manholes in the home illegal?
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Please help, I have a manhole in my bedroom. Are these illegal? I know nothing about them but assumed they were only meant to be outside?? Can waste come up through this manhole? Its a small room in a ground floor flat. Surely this is not right???
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I doubt that the correct term is a manhole - i.e. large enough for someone to physically enter a chamber below the cover at floor level. This is more likely to be a rodding point, i.e. for the purposes of clearing a blockage or simply for inspection/check/test purposes. Much depends on how the thing is covered or capped off - if it is a sealed cover then the normal state (closed) renders it as good as non-existent until opened. Under such circumstances it is no worse than, say, a shower drain with a trap on it or even less obtrusive if it has a sealed cover that is fixed in place. If the cover is fixed in place then nothing should be able to come through, neither liquid nor gases. If merely sitting there by gravity then potentially (in extreme circumstances) the cover could be lifted off by a surcharged (i.e. full to overflowing) pipeline.