Drainage plans for house

Thomo2710

Hi,

Im after the drainage plans for my house as i believe the garage was an add on after the house was built and the drain moved.

Who do i contact to get the original plans?

Council/Solicitor?

Ive checked through all the paperwork the solicitor gave us last year but there are no drainage plans just plans of the street and the main sewer line belonging to the water compnay.

Cheers

Johnhowell

You could try the Building Control department in your local council. Depending on the age of the estate/house they may have the developers plans.

Good luck, let us know how you get on.
John

Doozergirl

Your water company.

Ask your solicitor if they have a copy of the drainage search (on my phone right now but i think the proper name is a CON29DW). if the house had a HIP when you purchased, it should have been in there. The EA might still have a copy.

Otherwise it costs about £50 from
The water company - you can
Request one yourself.

sonastin

Why do you need to know? Do you think that there is a problem with the drains caused by moving them or a problem with adding the garage on later?

I don't think water companies keep records of where the drains run across private property - having worked with water company records in the past, they barely know where their own pipes are let alone where the ones that you are responsible for are supposed to be! Even if you could find a plan of where they were intended to be laid, there's no way to be sure whether that is where they actually were laid initially anyway. I would put money on the builder taking the path of least resistance between where the drains connect to the house and where they connect to the main sewer. Provided there was sufficient run on them, the Building inspector would probably be fine with that.

poppysarah

You could try dowsing?

tyllwyd

We weren't sure where the drains for our house were when we came to build our extension - our builder found them by digging up the garden with a mini-digger until he hit them! That isn't practical for everyone - but if you have an idea of where they might be, would it be possible to dig a hole to look?