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Default Connecting polypipe to lead pipe

In message l.net, at
09:17:20 on Sun, 3 May 2020, Dave Liquorice
remarked:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:44:48 +0100, Roger Hayter wrote:

However in the OP's case it sounds as though MDPE to the stopcock would
be the most reliable thing to do.


And some water companies will do it for free and have the moleing kit
to avoid having to dig trenches...


Anglia Water claim you have to get the pipe to the roadside yourself.

Parenthetically, my old underground plastic pipe was black, I think blue
is relatively recent innovation.


Ours is black, mains water arrived in the early 1980's.


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