Not exactly a DIY question, but kind of relevant to this group, so
thought I would enquire here (excuse the lengthy description).

My sister lives in a terraced property, comprised of upstairs and
downstairs flats (they were built that way, not houses that were
converted). She lives in one of the upstairs ones.

Anyway, seems the water supply to the upstairs flats enters through the
bathrooms of the flats directly below them.

I popped round the other day as her water had gone off, which coincided
with some building work that was taking place below.

Seems the plumbers have altered the pipework and put new stopcocks in,
on both the mains water for that flat and the supply to my sisters flat
upstairs and hadn't bothered to put the water back on before packing up
for the weekend. Which I soon rectified after managing to locate a
keyholder.

Now, this gives me a number of concerns.

Should the person downstairs have a stopcock to the property upstairs? I
know there is the issue of what happens in the event of a burst pipe,
but also there's the issue of someone sabotaging the supply (which is
kind-of what happened here)

Also, instead of the pipe entering the building and going straight up,
they've run the pipework (theirs and hers) all the way round their
bathroom and back so they could put these stopcocks in where they are
"easily accessable". Which means, what is to stop someone at a later
date tapping in to the wrong water supply if they decided to redo the
bathroom again?

So, I guess my questions are, should the flat downstairs have a stopcock
to the flat upstairs and shouldn't the supply to the flat upstairs go
straight up and not be diverted round their property where it can be
"tampered with"?

Thanks in advance.

Simon T




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