This house is not on mains sewerage but has three cesspits. Not one, but three. Something the estate agents failed to point out and I consider to be quite important.
Having met the vendors, and having seen the negligence inflicted on this poor house over the last ten years, you can bet your bottom dollar, the cesspit has not been emptied recently, if at all.
Whilst I quite like the idea of not paying sewerage charges to the water provider, I don't relish the thought of the cesspit overflowing in the middle of the night either, or permanently smelling of boiled cabbage like the one in a house we stayed in in France once.
So mains sewerage is the way to go.
I emailed Anglian Water to find out if there is main sewerage in the road and got an automated response that said I would be contacted in 10 working days. We don't have 10 working days.
Whilst on the phone to my Mum this morning, she asked if the nearly new (that's another story) bungalow next door is on the mains which made me think 'Eureka!' These days, with the internet, you have the world at your fingertips and so I checked the planning application for said bungalow and sure enough, it's on the mains...and more importantly, there's a spur off actually on the drive of our house! Or should be...mmmmmm. We'll see. Watch this space.
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