Reduce house offer because of undisclosed sewage pumping station in the garden

If you will forgive me for saying this, it sounds like you are making excuses to get money off, and if I was the seller I would tell your to pump off!
A sewage pump is a particular type of water pump. Their description was not inaccurate.
 
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jpaul said:
ask his potential neighbours, of any issue smell/overflow .... ?!

just googled smell (from elsewhere in village) ... now I know what it is
Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless, flammable gas that smells like rotten eggs at low concentration levels in the air. It is commonly known as sewer gas, stink damp, and manure gas. At high concentration levels, it has a sickening sweet odor
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At high concentrations, H2S won't be detectable by smell and you'll likely be unconscious or dead.
 
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SpellowHouse said:
If you will forgive me for saying this, it sounds like you are making excuses to get money off, and if I was the seller I would tell your to pump off!
A sewage pump is a particular type of water pump. Their description was not inaccurate.
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Lol at that comment.
You don't owe the seller anything, literally your one job to buy the house for as little as possible. You don't pay more to be nice.
 
randal said:
Pump explodes, poop outside your house, then maintenance work.
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Please explain how you think an RBMK reactor sewage pump can explode?

jpaul said:
just googled smell (from elsewhere in village) ... now I know what it is
Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless, flammable gas that smells like rotten eggs at low concentration levels in the air. It is commonly known as sewer gas, stink damp, and manure gas. At high concentration levels, it has a sickening sweet odor
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As mentioned above, at the higher concentrations you'll likely be very sick or dead. H2S is also heavier than air, so even if your sewers are full of it, you won't be smelling it.
You'll also have more serious problems, as H2S utterly destroys concrete, and there will be evidence of this.

There are plenty of other things with a sickly sweet odour. There's a timber plantation at one of our local green spaces, where it smells like a horde of vapers have taken over... it's actually just the trees (pine of some kind, I think).
 
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ttaskmaster said:
Please explain how you think an RBMK reactor sewage pump can explode?


As mentioned above, at the higher concentrations you'll likely be very sick or dead. H2S is also heavier than air, so even if your sewers are full of it, you won't be smelling it.
You'll also have more serious problems, as H2S utterly destroys concrete, and there will be evidence of this.

There are plenty of other things with a sickly sweet odour. There's a timber plantation at one of our local green spaces, where it smells like a horde of vapers have taken over... it's actually just the trees (pine of some kind, I think).
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Outlet coupling seal fails, sprays poo everywhere.

I didn't mean a literal chemical reaction explosion, just in case you were confused on the matter.
 
the more practical issue that occurs with one on our estate ... is people flushing wet wipes (none of them are really flushable I believe from bbc doc, should be banned like tiktok)
which causes the pump uptake tube to foul up, then need manual intervention, and often a drain sucker lorry.
 
As has been alluded to, what practical effect will getting money knocked off make you feel better about the scenario?

It's still there irrespective of how much the house costs so it will still be as much of a problem for you.
 
danlightbulb said:
Crazy a) that people either lie or don't even understand what's on their property and b) that all this info isn't revealed in searches after paying a not insubstantial amount of money for supposed professionals to do this work.
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In my experience searches, surveys etc. Mostly useless. Usually carried out by knuckle dragging idiots who don't care.
 
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adidan said:
As has been alluded to, what practical effect will getting money knocked off make you feel better about the scenario?

It's still there irrespective of how much the house costs so it will still be as much of a problem for you.
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The house being as cheap as possible is the main practical effect I would imagine. How is that not desirable.
 
robj20 said:
The house being as cheap as possible is the main practical effect I would imagine. How is that not desirable.
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That wasn't my point.

A house with something you have a problem with is still the same house with the same problem.
 
adidan said:
That wasn't my point.

A house with something you have a problem with is still the same house with the same problem.
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In this case yes I guess so, other times it could help pay for something to help remedy the problem. High fence, triple glazing. Still of I still wanted the property of still use it as ammunition to reduce the price.
 
I have one just over the road from me. You get the odd poop smell from time to time but I only notice it when I walk by it with my dog, not in my garden or anything.. The one thing with these pumps is the NOISE not the smell. I'm quite sensitive to certain pitches and man can i hear this pump at all random times of the day. It's not loud but I just know its there really.

Op if you do want to buy it might be worth sitting up by it for a good few hours, they pump will only go off at certain times, it's well worth waiting around to see how loud it is.
 
I remember taking a "house tour" years ago, it was underground like some kind of military conversion with open sewer entrance, you could literally step into a massive pipe and walk into victorian sewers.

No it wasn't a dream, I think...lol it was surreal.
 
It is a buy and sell agreement between you and the seller and until exchange you can do what ever you want. It may not be ethical especially when you are in a chain but at the end of the day it is a business transection.

Do what you or your partner want and at the end of the day it would be a yes or no answer. There are plenty of house in the sea, I would just try and find another unless the reduction is substantial enough that I can sell and move somewhere else if not happy with it eg cover stamp duty plus much more.
 
robj20 said:
In this case yes I guess so, other times it could help pay for something to help remedy the problem. High fence, triple glazing. Still of I still wanted the property of still use it as ammunition to reduce the price.
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Oh undoubtedly, if it's something that you could live with or pay to rectify then it certainly pays to hammer down the price.

A problem you can't live with is still that no matter the price though, that's the impression I get from this case.

Still, enough money can make even the worst problems seem like mere annoyances :)
 
adidan said:
Oh undoubtedly, if it's something that you could live with or pay to rectify then it certainly pays to hammer down the price.

A problem you can't live with is still that no matter the price though, that's the impression I get from this case.

Still, enough money can make even the worst problems seem like mere annoyances :)
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You could don a mask made out of the £50 notes you saved, for example
 
I'm surprised that didn't come up on the searches your solicitors did, unless I've read your post wrong.

The house I just bought, at the back of the garden, behind the garage and another building next to the garage, it turns out the main sewer runs along it through everyone's garden. We couldn't prove the garage was built on it or not, and the seller of the house was a genuine pile poop anyway, so we didn't even bother trying to get money off. We just got an indemnity policy in place instead, so if they do need to dig it up and it's over the garage, the insurance will repair it.

Depending on how close that pump is to your front door though, would certainly make me think twice. I imagine it needs maintenance occasionally too which means opening the poop gates.
 
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