On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:39:55 -0000, ":::Jerry::::"
wrote:


"Chris Cowley" wrote in message
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I wonder how they'd deal with a property like ours - the water
supply to
our house is shared, it comes in via 15mm copper through a party
wall.
If the neighbour turns their internal stop-cock off, our supply is
also
cut off.

A water meter does not need to be outside a property.

Yes, but I don't think there is anywhere they could put a water meter in
our neighbour's property that would prevent our water usage appearing on
their meter, IYSWIM. The (lead) mains pipe goes from the street into the
neighbour's house, where has branches to their kitchen and bathroom, and
the pipework then continues on through the wall into our property.

I think perhaps the neighbouring property would have to be partially
re-plumbed if we were both to have meters, unless the water company is
prepared to subtract our usage from the neighbour's (which sounds like a
recipe for billing errors to me!)
--
Chris Cowley