{"id":23832,"date":"2017-03-16T18:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23832"},"modified":"2017-03-12T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:07:55","slug":"21st-century-ynyslas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/21st-century-ynyslas\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century at Ynyslas"},"content":{"rendered":"

We seem to be moving ever closer to the 21st Century at Ynyslas…<\/p>\n

First we leap-frogged most people in the UK by getting Superfast broadband via a direct Fibre to the Property (FTTP) connection<\/a> rather than the standard Fibre to the Cabinet connection that most people with Superfast Broadband have. Before that we were on a slow 1.5Mbps Broadband connection, now we can get 300Mbps.<\/p>\n

Next the power company was out in force replacing the overhead cables and updating our electricity supply. We used to get power-cuts all the time and the lights would dim every night at 9pm. Since the updates all has been good.<\/p>\n

And now they are in the process of installing mains drains. I won’t go into all of the details of our battles with the water companies over the past 14 years or so but here’s the quick version of the story. When\u00a0building our house back in 2013 we were told that mains drains would be installed at Ynyslas within the next few years and it was therefore OK to build the house. We therefore spent the next few years without any drains at all<\/a>. We had a portaloo in the back garden for calls of nature and had to be very frugal with water use, and particularly water waste. Laundry was done at the launderette. Washing up water was used to water the garden and washing and bathing\u00a0meant siphoning the water out onto the garden afterwards so we tried to shower at sports centres and such like where possible. Eventually after much fighting with Welsh Water we gave up hope and spent around \u00a310,000 on a septic tank so that we could finally use water in the house. Meanwhile the Environment Agency continued to battle with Welsh Water telling them that they had a duty to install mains drains here. Now, 14 years later they are finally doing so.<\/p>\n

They will be installing a small pumping station in the fields behind the houses and are in the process of digging trenches for the piping. They have also prepared a couple of access routes to the fields behind the houses so that they can get there to complete the works.<\/p>\n\n\t\t