On 28/11/2012 23:28, SteveW wrote:
On 28/11/2012 19:54, Bill Wright wrote:
When I moved in here the stop cock just inside the front door couldn't
be turned. The water board came and eventually discovered that the one
in the street was under a little metal lid that itself was three feet
underground. The verge had been built up that much over the years.

My dad's house was discovered (after 50 years of occupation) to have two
stop cocks and two water supplies, one from one street and the other
from the adjoining street.

He should have called them out and had the water cut off, told them to
stop billing them for the water (and the associated sewerage) and then
carried on using the other supply! Or maybe a meter on one supply and
just kept using the other!

SteveW


Not having a supply doesn't stop them billing you for water! If you have
reasonable access to someone else's water, that's enough apparently