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daniel80

Yes Davesnave thats what I was thinking, this guy has quite a large garden with a farmers field next doot. My garden is quite small and even though detached I do have neighbors either side, Field behind though.

Davesnave

It's possible you'll get to know a few helpful people when you move to your new home, including someone willing to empty your tank at a price well below commercial rates.

If you are willing to join in with activities and contribute whatever you can in a rural community, the rewards generally follow.

We could not live so cheaply where we are without local back up for all kinds of things.

Paul_the_Painter

Could you also look at a grey water system? Bath, shower, sink etc water to a separate tank which is fine to water the garden with. Would require a fair bit of replumbing, but would reduce your volume of waste by a significant amount.

Waterlily24

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I can confirm that the above application is not 100% accurate.
I have used the post code of my local pub and "its flush" has only just arrived at the sewage works.
My home is about 100 ft above sea level but the pub is probably only 50ft and I know its sewer goes down to a creek where a pumping station has to pump it up again and the pipe cuts the corner through some fields. The application assumes that the pipe follows the road - I am 99% sure it doesn't.

Anyway it has now travelled 10 miles & arrived about 0.25 of a mile away from what is self evidently in the photograph, a sewage works. (Perhaps that is where the public road ends? Though it has not always stuck to the roads and taken to the fields in several places on its journey).

You almost certainly won't be putting the rainwater into your tank - it will be going to a soakaway - It might be worth checking that the water bill does not include any sort of charge for surface water drainage - a lot of houses have this incorporated into their bills, because nobody has checked that they don't intermingle any surface water into their sewage.

I'm not sure if I've got this right, we don't have mains drainage and it says ours has travelled nine and a half miles. Am I getting the wrong end of the stick lol.

AdrianC

Waterlily24 wrote: »

I'm not sure if I've got this right, we don't have mains drainage and it says ours has travelled nine and a half miles.

I know for a fact that the route it gave for our old house is wrong. And, like you, our current place isn't on mains drains - but it seems to come up with a route for 'em.

Basically, I think they're making it up as they go along.

Am I getting the wrong end of the stick lol.

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