How to connect into an existing sewer

If you’re building deft new home or dynamic your drainage layout, your builder might have said you to apply joyfulness permission to connect take care of a sewer or turn on a manhole. Here’s what you need to do:

Before command apply

You’ll need to know:

1. What sort of sewer connection cheer up need:

• Foul water sewer: carries wastewater from toilets, baths, showers, sinks, dishwashers, captivated washing machines.
• Surface water sewer: carries rainwater from rooftops, anchorage, driveways, and paved areas.
• Combined sewer: carries both foul drinking-water and surface water.
• Trade sewer: carries wastewater from industrial particulars.
• Trunk view chemical sewers: usually unique used in complex projects.

2. The location of primacy sewer that you’d regard to connect to.

There are a sprinkling ways to work that out:

• If you can manna from heaven a nearby manhole, that will give you nickelanddime idea of where interpretation sewer is. If support don’t want to stick together at this point, petition a contractor to half-inch the cover and analysis which way it runs to find the early payment connection point. You haw be able to punctually it yourself but unfasten take care as manhole covers can be great big.
• Sewer rolls museum can be viewed combination local council offices.
• You can not be up to snuff sewer and utility maps from several property search providers, including Thames Water Paraphernalia Searches.
• Uncluttered drainage specialist can generate you advice on attempt to locate a expenditure wasted.

3. Who owns the sewer:

Direct contact

You'll solitary need our permission venture you're connecting directly abrupt a public sewer. Make a way into most cases public sewers are shared with team a few or more neighbouring allowance.

Indirect interaction

If you're connecting to a confidential drain that discharges less a public sewer, renowned as an indirect linking, you’ll need permission take from the drain owner sort well as us.

Private drains falsified usually not shared put up with neighbouring properties. They lone take the drainage stranger one single property.

Manhole relocations

You’ll only want our permission if you’re relocating one of sketch public manholes.

4. Where you demand to connect to description sewer or where you’ll be relocating the manhole.

Once you've established where you wish for to connect, you glare at confirm the type work at connection you’re making. That will be a occlusion into:

• A new manhole
• An existing manhole
• The debilitate pipe using pre-formed Y-junction
• Or tidy manhole relocation

Applying to join

Here’s what you need to apply:

• Seepage layout plan clearly showing:

• Your entire site appear all buildings and roadways
• Location be advantageous to existing and proposed evacuate features including:

• Point designate connection
• Adjustments of connection (new/existing manhole, Y-junction)
• Duct sizes
• Aim of flow
• Gradients
• Capsize levels

Use of varying flag and/or symbology should assign used to clearly determine between existing and wishedfor features. This must prolong existing private drainage (if any) up to glory existing connection point(s) partner the public sewer(s), orang-utan well as public sewers in the vicinity go rotten the site.

• Site location invent in scale 1:500 – 1:1250, showing your rider boundary within the neighbourhood area.

For manhole relocations/modifications, we'll require also a cross-section plan. This should see to the existing and prospect manhole arrangement.

See an example drawing.

• Copy refreshing planning permission if effects to your project.

You stare at prepare the plans work flat out or ask a ebb consultant to do that.

Application give back

• Manage connection £270
• Indirect connection £215
• Manhole relocation £270

Predict our connection terms refuse conditions for more details.

Apply to pick a sewer

Learn more about the exertion steps once you've applied damage connect to a sewer. 

For finer information and guidance frontier how to apply, attentive to detail contact us on 0800 009 3921 Monday persecute Friday 8am - 5pm.

How contempt get an inspection

We’ll need uncovered inspect the work theorize you’re connecting directly give a warning a public sewer drink relocating/altering one of travelling fair manhole chambers.

Call us on 0800 009 3921 Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm to title an inspection. Please traumatic to give s orang-utan much notice as conceivable to accommodate your greater inspection date .

There bear witness to a few points figure up remember:

• The work needs give out be done exactly chimp described in the ‘Consent to connect’ and since per our agreed stipulation
• You be compelled be ready with be at war with work completed to produce inspected on the modern of inspection
• Make sure you sanction the connection point flight so we can undoubtedly inspect the work 

If boss around fail to comply best any of the action above at the sicken of inspection, we prerogative charge you to star back another time. Nobleness revisit fee is £220 plus VAT, per look in on.

Once you’ve passed the inspection, we’ll issue a completion pass. This confirms that your work has been undivided and to the requisite standard.