thankyou for your help i will have to look into this, when we bought the house both the estate agent who was very helpful and the notaire said there was no need to ever have it emptied so we assumed this was ok, there was alot going on then, i think we will need to go over all the paperwork, as i am sure you are aware is such alot x it is only now we have begun to think, so am asking for help, thankyou nick