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Summary of Examples Hazard  17 Personal Hygiene, sanitation and drainage


Example NumberSourceProperty DateStoreys/LocationProperty TypeSummary InformationHazardLink
1CLG1910Ground floor bedsit2 storey detached house converted to 4 bedsits and a self-contained ground floor flat.The bedsits share a kitchen, and a single combined shower room and w.c. In the shower room there is no supply of either hot or cold water to the wash hand basin, which is filled by using the detachable shower head. The waste to the basin and overflow to the w.c. cistern both discharge into the shower tray.B+Example 1
2CLG1900First floor flat3 storey terraced houseThe soil and vent pipe serving the first floor back addition bathroom is leaking at the joint between the pipe and the waste pipe from the ground floor back addition bathroom. In addition, the drain, which runs directly to the main sewer, appears to be partially blocked causing foul and waste water to back-up and leak out onto the common rear yard.CExample 2
3CLG18502 storeymid-terrace house modernised in the 1970sDespite the modernisation, the narrow downstairs w.c. compartment was left without a wash-hand basin. Although the compartment’s single leaf brick wall was rendered externally, the floor was never adequately damp-proofed, the consequent rising damp leading to the lifting and subsequent break up of the thermo plastic floor tiles.D-Example 3
4BCCPre 19203 storeyHMO with nine bedstudy rooms.There are shared sanitary and washing facilities and no wash hand basins in the bedstudy rooms.IExample 4

 Key
BCC – Bristol City Council
CLG – Department of Communities and Local Government
IDeA- Improvement and Development Agency (for Local Government)

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