What your Drain Plans Should Include

Why Drainage Plans of Your Property are Important and How you’ll Find Them Drainage is an important part of every property, it may commercial or residential. Keeping in mind future issues with drainage system, drainage plans are very important part of your entire property structure. The plans for your property show you the entire drain system passing underneath your property. This plan will show the structure of your drainage system, the sewer water and surface water from your property takes, and where the pipes can be accessed. Considering this plan future issues of drainage or fixing a broken pipe underground can be solved easily without damaging the upper surface of your property.

Why you should have a drainage plan for your property?

Keeping everything aside, what-if you want to apply for an environment permit, consent to discharge into a watercourse, or planning permission. Agency or a local authority will first ask you to submit your drainage plan, they allow you to carry on an activity with certain conditions after analyzing the plan.

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Another reason, drainage plan will help you to identify where all drain pipes are leading. It will save your thousands of pound when your drainage gets blocked or even when collapsed, as the drainage specialist will demand a plan before going for further work for clearance.

So, if the property you are owing an old property and you don’t have the real drainage plans and don’t think they’re up to date, it’s recommend that you have a new drainage plans drawn up soon as possible.

What The Drainage Plan Should Include?

Weather-if it is an old or new drainage plan drawn up for your property, it’s important you know what information should be included. A professional drain plan should include all the drainage system of your property, storage areas, septic tanks and many more as below.        

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Onsite wastewater treatment systems.

Storage areas for raw materials, products and wastes.

Discharge points from the site.

Bunded areas with capacity indication.

Watercourses, springs and boreholes.

Water supply and control valves.

Emergency equipment and safety measures.

How Do I Find Drainage Plans for My Property?

If you want to get hold of your property’s existing drainage plans, it is possible to contact your local water authority. However, it is important to note that you usually have to pay for permission to access these plans. And generally, the drainage plans provided from your local water authority will show you the location of all main drains on your road and not the private drainage system of your property.

You can also access property drain plans from the local council or authority. It is very likely that your local council will also have the drainage plans for your property. It may happen that the plan provided by the local council may not match the exact drain plan of your property, this is just because the previous owner might have made some changes after submitting plan to council. So, just be aware in such situation and contact the nearest drainage specialist to get a new plan.

If you are looking for drainage plans for your property, or want to make a new plans drawn up. We would advise you to contact MR Drains, a long established drainage specialist covering the South East England. For the past 20 years they have been serving customers in London and the surrounding areas of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.

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