1st July 2008 - Our plans for the extension have stalled slightly as Severn Trent Water have informed us and Building Control that there is a pipe running under where we want to build.

This pipe has not been a problem for the last two years, but when it came to sign the form for permission they have changed their mind as they now think it is a high pressure rising sewer main, this change of mind was because a couple of days ago it started leaking in a neighbours garden and they had to repair it.

However we still don't know where it is, the diagram they have given us shows that it in theory goes under our conservatory so we have already have a building over it !

As it is as clear as a Glastonbury field after a torrential downpour, the only way to locate it, or prove it isn't in the way is to dig a big hole !