Hello all. couple of water pipe related questions.
Who owns the bit of pipe between the street stopcock in the pavement and my
stopcock? (about 3 or 4 meters).
I have lead water pipes and I just wondered if i'll have to pay to replace
the bit in my garden as well.
I guess the new pipe will be this alkalene blue plastic stuff?
Oh, another thing, water pipe enters house at front, stopcock is in my front
room in a little cupboard thing, Is it inadvisable to put stopcock in my
kitchen at the rear of ther house where the pipe goes to?

lots of plumbing to get done this year.

oh, how much is labour per day for a plumber in lancashire area?

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:30:15 GMT, Fray Bentos wrote:

Who owns the bit of pipe between the street stopcock in the pavement
and my stopcock? (about 3 or 4 meters).

You do.

I have lead water pipes and I just wondered if i'll have to pay to
replace the bit in my garden as well.

Contact your local water Co. some offer free replacement of a lead
service pipe if you are also removing (have removed?) all the lead in
the house.

I guess the new pipe will be this alkalene blue plastic stuff?

Yes.

oh, how much is labour per day for a plumber in lancashire area?

This is a Do It Yourself group... B-)

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

The water board are responsible from their stop tap in the pavement to your
boundary wall. So you will have to pay to have the supply installed from
there

"Fray Bentos" wrote in message
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Hello all. couple of water pipe related questions.
Who owns the bit of pipe between the street stopcock in the pavement and
my
stopcock? (about 3 or 4 meters).
I have lead water pipes and I just wondered if i'll have to pay to replace
the bit in my garden as well.
I guess the new pipe will be this alkalene blue plastic stuff?
Oh, another thing, water pipe enters house at front, stopcock is in my
front
room in a little cupboard thing, Is it inadvisable to put stopcock in my
kitchen at the rear of ther house where the pipe goes to?

lots of plumbing to get done this year.

oh, how much is labour per day for a plumber in lancashire area?

"Fray Bentos" wrote in message
k...
Hello all. couple of water pipe related questions.
Who owns the bit of pipe between the street stopcock in the pavement and
my
stopcock? (about 3 or 4 meters).
I have lead water pipes and I just wondered if i'll have to pay to replace
the bit in my garden as well.
I guess the new pipe will be this alkalene blue plastic stuff?
Oh, another thing, water pipe enters house at front, stopcock is in my
front
room in a little cupboard thing, Is it inadvisable to put stopcock in my
kitchen at the rear of ther house where the pipe goes to?

lots of plumbing to get done this year.

oh, how much is labour per day for a plumber in lancashire area?

From the property line the pipe is yours. Put a full bore valve inside your
house. If you can get down the side of the house go to the rear. Install
32mm pipe as it will reduce resrictions. The may connect to 25mm at the
road stopcock.




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The water board are responsible from their stop tap in the pavement to your
boundary wall. So you will have to pay to have the supply installed from
there

Not necessarily, Yorkshire Water have (or at least had) a scheme whereby
if you replaced the pipe inside the house, they would replace the pipe
outside, including through your garden.
--
Chris French, Leeds

Fray Bentos wrote:
Hello all. couple of water pipe related questions.
Who owns the bit of pipe between the street stopcock in the pavement and my
stopcock? (about 3 or 4 meters).
I have lead water pipes and I just wondered if i'll have to pay to replace
the bit in my garden as well.
I guess the new pipe will be this alkalene blue plastic stuff?
Oh, another thing, water pipe enters house at front, stopcock is in my front
room in a little cupboard thing, Is it inadvisable to put stopcock in my
kitchen at the rear of ther house where the pipe goes to?

lots of plumbing to get done this year.

oh, how much is labour per day for a plumber in lancashire area?


I had the water board (severn trent) to do this as they have an
obligation (not sure if it is a legal or a social one)to replace lead
pipes with plastic. The are meant to do this to reduce leakage. They
came out and replaced from the road to my house, (about 8m) and it cost
£500. I took 2 blokes a morning to do it, so I think it was reasonable
value. They also upgraded from my streek stopcock to the main pipe in
the road as well for free. They did virtually no digging, they used a
mechanical "mole" to burrow through.

I did notice that the flow rate into the house went up from 9 liters/min
to 19 l/m, so that made it even better value!

Mike

"Mike Hibbert" wrote in message
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Fray Bentos wrote:
Hello all. couple of water pipe related questions.
Who owns the bit of pipe between the street stopcock in the pavement and
my
stopcock? (about 3 or 4 meters).
I have lead water pipes and I just wondered if i'll have to pay to
replace
the bit in my garden as well.
I guess the new pipe will be this alkalene blue plastic stuff?
Oh, another thing, water pipe enters house at front, stopcock is in my
front
room in a little cupboard thing, Is it inadvisable to put stopcock in my
kitchen at the rear of ther house where the pipe goes to?

lots of plumbing to get done this year.

oh, how much is labour per day for a plumber in lancashire area?


I had the water board (severn trent) to do this as they have an
obligation (not sure if it is a legal or a social one)to replace lead
pipes with plastic. The are meant to do this to reduce leakage. They
came out and replaced from the road to my house, (about 8m) and it cost
£500. I took 2 blokes a morning to do it, so I think it was reasonable
value. They also upgraded from my streek stopcock to the main pipe in
the road as well for free. They did virtually no digging, they used a
mechanical "mole" to burrow through.

I did notice that the flow rate into the house went up from 9 liters/min
to 19 l/m, so that made it even better value!

Mike

£500 !!!!!!!!????????????

Is that not a tad expensive?