On 19/06/2019 11:53, Robin wrote:
On 19/06/2019 10:48, tim... wrote:


"Tim+" wrote in message
...

wrote:
From a local FB group....

Â*When Jane (name changed to protect the innocent)and I moved into
Church
House 3 ish years ago we found we were paying a huge 1/4 bill for
water,
we are on a meter. Having settled in we contacted Southern water and
questioned it. We went through a process of "Do you have a water mill"
"No" "Do you have a swimming pool" "No" "Do you have 10 children" "NO".
Ok you have a leak ! I said Ok can you come and have a look. They said
"Yes". But they never came, I contacted them weeks later and said "When
are you coming" Their reply was aggressive and unnecessary "We are not
coming the leak is on your property it's down to you" end of story.
Well
no, not quite. After saving up a lot of money for a local company
(Excellent local company) to put a new water main in, we had it
completed
this weekend. Great �� No 👎� we have cut off our next door
neighbours
water supply. She had been paying water rates whilst her water had come
through our meter. What leak ? I leave you to make your own
conclusions.
Southern Water ??!!??


Hmm,Â* the branch to the neighbour must have been *after* the meter so
where
did the new water main get connected?

At the meter, which is usually co-located with the in-street stop-cock.

where else would you put it?


Not everyone has such a stop-tap.Â* And in earlier years they often
fitted them inside premises even when there was one.

I heard a surveyor of some seniority advise 40+ years ago "when you buy
a house turn off the water where the main enters your property and check
(a) you have no water from your taps and (b) your neighbours do from
theirs."

We had the opposite. We had a drain that kept blocking and eventually
had to be dug up because the jetting company got their equipment stuck
in it. I took the opportunity to replace the damaged section with
plastic, only to find half-way through that next-door's kitchen drains
down our drain, when they did the washing up. Fortunately their bathroom
drains down a spearate one on the other side of their property!

SteveW