"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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"Tim Downie" writes:

"ARWadsworth" wrote in message
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I managed to talk my Grandad into having a water meter fitted some years
ago. He lived on his own in a 4 bed house and it was worth him having
one
fitted IMHO. After the meter was fitted he asked me to have a look at it
as he thought it had been incorrectly fitted.

It had indeed been incorrectly fitted. YW had fitted the meter after the
T
that supplied the outside tap. My Grandad laughed and said "Don't tell
anyone until I am dead" as he went to fetch the lawn sprinkler and
hosepipe from the garage.

Sometimes they cock up the opposite way though. My wife's elderly aunt
who
lives alone had a meter fitted and then faced a bill much bigger than
expected. Turned out that the main supplying her house had a branch that
supplied the neighbour's house as well.

I used to live in a terraced house. Next door was being gutted and
moderised. They ran a new water main and connected it to their new
plumbing. All well and good for them, except the rest of the terrace
was fed from their original pipework and we all suddenly had no water!
The guy had to start digging up the kitchen floor to find where the
pipes went off to the properties on each side, and reconnect them.
House changed hands a few times since then. I wonder if they've had
a water meter fitted since, without realising they're supplying
everyone else too?

Can properties like this have water meters properly?

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Andrew Gabriel
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Water supplies to terraced properties usually do not pass under a property.

But there is no logic to some water supplies. A friend phoned me up one
Sunday evening to say that he could hear water hitting his floorboards.

When I arrived and lifted the carpet and the floorboards there was indeed a
cold water supply (lead) that was leaking and hitting the floorboards.
Neither the stoptap in the street or the stop tap in the house turned off
this water supply.

Yorkshire Water sent someone round that night and the bloke that arrived
used a long stick to knock the lead pipe downwards so the water leak did not
hit the floorboards and then left saying that someone would be back on
Tuesday as it was a Bank Holiday.

It took 3 working days for YW to find the stop tap to this lead supply. The
stoptap was on a different street.

Adam