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Is there any reason why a shared supply from a single stop tap in the road
would mean that we couldn't have a water meter? Surely they'd just insert it
downstream of the point where the common pipe diverges into the feeds to
each house, probably close to the point where it rises into the house.
Evidently not because the water company say that a shared stop tap means you
can never have a meter.

In the house I grew up in, the stop cock fed the house next
door. The pipe entered under theit front door and ran all
the way to the kitchen at the back and then to the (outside)
loo.

From there it went though the wall into our loo and then
doubled back into our kitchen.

Our houses were very old - the one next door only had gas
lighting until the original owner died and it changed hands.

However, my wife spent all her school days in a house built
in the early 50s where the water was daisy chained in a
similar manner through another two houses before it giot to
them!

Obviously, although we could have had a water meter fitted
where the water entered our loo, our neighbour could only
have a meter that measured the supply to both houses.

I suppose with two meters, the reading from our meter could
be subtracted from the joint reading to give a figure for
next door but in my wife's case it the calculations would
start to get very interesting!

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