New connection to a mains sewer

meangreenie

:hello:
I wish to connect to the main sewer outside my house, currently all my sewage goes through a shared drain through my neighbours property. I am moving the bathroom in my house and building a new en-suite. The current drain is the other side of the house.
I live in a quiet road with no through traffic and the invert depth of the drain is between 160 and 165

How much does it cost to connect to a mains sewer and create a sewage "hub" with inspection hatch 3m into my property?:think:

What permissions do I need to gain?

My apologies if I have not used the correct terms, I hope you can understand what I mean

Many thanks
Green meanie

darich

First you need to find out who owns the sewer - they may or may not permit you to connect to it.

Secondly - invert level is 160-165????? The invert is the bottom of the pipe so if that's the correct size the top of the pipe is barely 60mm below ground level. Highly unlikely - do you mean "cover"?
That would be the distance from the ground to the top of the pipe - even at that it's too shallow.

meangreenie

Nearest Manhole Invert level is 162.7 Cover level is 164.7 - connection is to pipe in road
Does that help?

ormus

a diagram would help us.
its probably far cheaper to connect to the existing drain.
you need another manhole anyways. and anywhere the pipe changes direction.

meangreenie

Sewer now safely connected. Lovely company who helped me submit relevant paperwork - so Water Board sent me permissions quite quickly. Lovely tidy job and really careful workmen. It was worth searching the internet and getting 4 firms to give me quotations to get a good job done. Thank you for your advice and help.

fivetide

But what did it cost?

Be keen to know!