"Mike" wrote in message
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Certainly not "IN" the drains, but when I lifted a path in my first house,
the roots of a Poplar Tree at the bottom of the garden, extended right up
to
the house. A distance of some 75 feet.

However, a neighbour to my last house, (we had gardens of some half an
acre
and he had lots of trees), his drain was crushed by a tree root. I would
guess the tree was some 30 ft from the drain. These were some very well
established old trees.

Mike


the other option is to dig down and put in a root break