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Need some advice please . Our last parent sadly passed in June last year . We are trying to sell the family home,that is situated in a rural village . The house is one of three houses that form a barn conversion , converted in 1982. All three share a septic tank located in the last houses garden . I remember many years ago, my father and last owner of end house rigged up a pump to pump overflow water down to a ditch / old dis user pond . I was very young at the time .
as we come to put house on market , estate agent advised us that we would need to have the septic tank updated more than likely to fit new rules . We spoke with owners at end who said they would get quotes from their own builder and we would aswell. They have since said they actually don’t want to , as they don’t plant to move for 20 years and don’t want their lawn digging up etc .
today I met at the house with a company to get a quote for our late parents house to have its own treatment pit in .we went to speak to the end house , and have a look. He said that how , any overflow water is pumped into a special above ground tank that he uses on his allotment on garden ? They only moved in 2 years ago , and it seems that they are genuinely not happy about all three houses waste running into tank in their garden , but I have said sadly that is how the houses were converted and never was a problem . It’s going to cost a small fortune to have some kind of system put into my late parents garden etc to solve this ! Does the own lee of the last house have the right to refuse to agree to update system , as it’s shared , and has always been , and all houses used to chip
in for service and emptying etc ? ( the middle house actually had a kligester installed some years ago ) surely if it is shared , always has been, and was set up in the 80s this way , he can’t refuse ? As when we sell, it will
Need sorting ? Where do we stand please
as we come to put house on market , estate agent advised us that we would need to have the septic tank updated more than likely to fit new rules . We spoke with owners at end who said they would get quotes from their own builder and we would aswell. They have since said they actually don’t want to , as they don’t plant to move for 20 years and don’t want their lawn digging up etc .
today I met at the house with a company to get a quote for our late parents house to have its own treatment pit in .we went to speak to the end house , and have a look. He said that how , any overflow water is pumped into a special above ground tank that he uses on his allotment on garden ? They only moved in 2 years ago , and it seems that they are genuinely not happy about all three houses waste running into tank in their garden , but I have said sadly that is how the houses were converted and never was a problem . It’s going to cost a small fortune to have some kind of system put into my late parents garden etc to solve this ! Does the own lee of the last house have the right to refuse to agree to update system , as it’s shared , and has always been , and all houses used to chip
in for service and emptying etc ? ( the middle house actually had a kligester installed some years ago ) surely if it is shared , always has been, and was set up in the 80s this way , he can’t refuse ? As when we sell, it will
Need sorting ? Where do we stand please
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