On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:13:36 +0100, "mich" wrote:


"BillV" wrote in message
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"mich" wrote in message
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If the water company (no boards for a decade or so)

I am old! Hence water board, but I do know they are now companies.


discover you have a leak
on yr side of their stopcock then they are likely to inform you they will
cut you off with x days if not fixed.
Get the company's stopcock for your house, normally in the street, turned
off for a short while to see if the hissing stops; if it does then you
have
to pay for the fix on your side.
Friend had to dig 30' of front garden down 2' to expose pipe so it could
be
replaced. Pipe is cheap but labour is not. Water Co connected new pipe to
their stopcock for no charge. This was in Essex..

I have an added problem now.Since the morning I have dug down outside the
house where it comes into the stop cock and found it is iron pipe. This must
be water pipe since I have no other mains coming in ( electric overhead and
no gas at all) .

The main road stop cock is a very old one ( still has water board written
on it). However, the break might be on my side ot it might be in the lane
and I cant tell. There are also three stop cocks before you get to the
house. One in the road, one in the lane and one outside my kitchen door.
There is a fourth that feeds the outside ( now ex) prep room and outside
loo.
Either way I guess I am going to have to renew the lot since I dont think
you can repair or patch into iron pipe?

Anyone can give the definitive answer on this.

By the way my house is 1950's rural smallholding bungalow. I have the plans
but I cant see water mains marked on it.


Sir

Its not too expensive, I put 180 metres in in 2 days, the digger
including driver cost 15 quid an hour. You don't have to put the pipe
in the drive, it might be much easier up the middle of the lawn ...

Rick