Drainage for pot plants

happyindebt

Do you need to put pebbles or broken clay pots at the bottom if it is a plastic pot? I have used large pebbles in a clay pot and it has blocked the hole. Thanks

AdrianC

It's not NEEDED for the sale of the house.
The people to convince in order for the sale to progress are your buyer (or, rather, their solicitor), not TW.

You can ask TW nicely to consider updating their maps...
https://www.thameswater.co.uk/developers/larger-scale-developments/planning-your-development/where-our-pipes-are

Falafels

Don't worry about it.

There is a public sewer under the house I've recently sold; it had been a private sewer serving a terrace of four properties until all such sewers were taken over by the water companies in 2011.

When I came to sell, there were enquiries from the purchaser's solicitor asking if it had been built over, build-over agreements, whether it had ever flooded over/been inspected/various other things which didn't apply, so I just responded with a 'No' to each. The sale proceeded quite happily.

AlexMac

What they said. 

London drainage maps are notoriously inaccurate. My drainage search merely revealed a main sewer running along the street I live on.  I had to call TW out recently due to a blockage, and according to their contarctor, MY HOUSE wasn't even on their maps despite having been built in 1988 or so.  Let alone the shared drain from the six flats in the 19th Century mansion block immediately behind our house in the next street parallel to ours.  I was certain that my waste went into this shared drain which I was sure runs under my house to the sewer along my frontage, in that most others houses in our street have this arrangement. 

In consequence, and because two TW engineers (from their usual sub-contractors "Lanes Drains") couldn't even open an inspection hatch in my rear garden, they wasted 90 minutes (mostly playing on thier phones) failing to diagnose the blockage nor accepting it was their problem.  They gave up and left, claiming it was a private drain, thus my problem.  

My insurer's contactor opened two inspection hatches, confirmed my assumption, let me look into (and photograph!) the shared drain and rodded clear the bockage in about 5-10 minutes!  More information than you wanted (altho' at least I didn't go into gruesome detail of the blockage) but we are in Lockdown!

davidmcn

If you have proof that the pipe isn't there, can't you just show that to your buyers?