I'm adding an en-suite to a first floor bedroom and the new soil pipe will need to connect into the existing drain on my property. I've contact the water company to find out if the drain running down my driveway is private or public, they told me they had no records of the drains other than those on the public road before my driveway.
They have suggested getting a drainage contractor in to do a survey and tell me if it's public or private.
Is this right, would the water company have a record of the drain if they were public or recently adopted by them?
The map I've seen for their sewers shows a public drain running down the public road to the bottom of our cul de sac, then taking a sharp right turn and continuing down the hill under the next door neighbours garden. There are no further drains marked on the map showing how each property is served.
If it's a public drain then the water company will want me to pay them a small fortune to make an application to connect into it, yet they can't tell me if it's theirs or not, doesn't seem right! So I'd have to pay a contractor to tell me if it's public or private. At this rate it will cost me several hundred quid in paperwork just to add a toilet and basin in a new en-suite.
They have suggested getting a drainage contractor in to do a survey and tell me if it's public or private.
Is this right, would the water company have a record of the drain if they were public or recently adopted by them?
The map I've seen for their sewers shows a public drain running down the public road to the bottom of our cul de sac, then taking a sharp right turn and continuing down the hill under the next door neighbours garden. There are no further drains marked on the map showing how each property is served.
If it's a public drain then the water company will want me to pay them a small fortune to make an application to connect into it, yet they can't tell me if it's theirs or not, doesn't seem right! So I'd have to pay a contractor to tell me if it's public or private. At this rate it will cost me several hundred quid in paperwork just to add a toilet and basin in a new en-suite.