Getting connected to mains drainage?

scottishlizzie

We are on a septic tank for our drainage and want to investigate the possibility of connecting to the mains drain. I have previously contacted the water company and they were pretty clueless about whether it could be done but muttered something about sending a surveyor out to look. We would have to pay for this but if we got connected they would knock it off the bill. We are on the downside of a hill so to connect we would probably need some kind of pump and we are also possibly up to about 500 yards along from the nearest property on the mains.

Does anyone have any advice, suggestions about how to go about finding out the feasibility of doing this and the likely costs?

The reason we want to do it is that we share a septic tank with a neighbour currently and we would rather not. We do not have enough space within our boundary for our own septic tank.

Thanks in advance

kittiwoz

Don't know too much about it but think this would be a big and expensive job. My parents were on a septic tank. The main drain is very deep in the opposite side of the road outside the house. Connecting into it would have required digging up the road (which is a private road so could have been done) and really peeing off all the neighbours. The next-door neighbour however kindly agreed to let my dad connect into their drain where it is near the surface before it slopes down into the main drain and he did the work himself. In return my dad unclogged the drain when it was blocked a few years ago. (Their daughter had flushed her babies nappies down it!)

I think you ought to be able to find out where the drains run without a surveyor though. It must be recorded in plans somewhere surely?