More plumbing issue

Today I was talking to the city inspector and he informed me that I am not allowed to have weeping tiles tied into the sewer. He indicated that weeping tile must be routed to an interior sump pit and a sump pump will pump the water out above grade. Now that’s yet another blow to my building project both for planning and for cost. Planning wise, I’ve already back filled most part of the house. Now excavator will have to come and dig up the north west corner again so that they can add a T joint on the weeper and then put a pipe under the footing into the house. Cost wise, I don’t know how much extra it will cost me to dig the hole again, but the sump pit and the pump and the extra plumbing will cost me around the neighbourhood of $1500.

So in the end the plumber has to undo his work. Disconnected the weeping tile and caped the connection that he made on the sanitary connection.

Now a bit of rant on my side. So many people have failed to know what is the right thing to do. First of all, my architect did not inform me the requirement of a sump pump. The plans are reviewed by the city without mention of a sump pit/sump pump for months and passed without any mention that city requires new house to have a sump pump. My foundation crew asked me once if the weeping tile is going to be routed to a sump pit, but they did not tell me that this is required for new houses here in Toronto. And my plumber asked someone in the Toronto Building department yesterday and that person said only the down spouts cannot be connected to the sewer and that weeping tiles can be connected to the sewer. So many people has go through what I want to do yet failed to stop me  on something that’s wrong. This problem really shouldn’t have happened!