runnach
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Years ago while out in the Middle East, I phoned home for the usual catch up, to be told of a burst pipe under kitchen floor, this is the only floor in house that is concrete. Patch job done to halt the flow at that time.Now he tells me ... . Before I nicked our mains feed pipe to the flat whilst ripping out damaged wood in preparation for the Dry Rot Phase 1 work to start, we had no stop cock in the street! The engineer from Scottish Water showed me the street map with quite a few gaps where the external stop cock was absent. In the ensuing 5 years, the stop cocks have been added in a piecemeal approach ...
The reinstated system in our flat has the requisite internal stop cocks and the external [street] stop cock that covers both flats
Steve
On returning home I found part floor dug up exposing lead pipe, with a approx 500mm of 22mm copper soldered onto remaining lead pipe. Our homes are old @ 250 yo, turns out I was on a common main, lead pipe entered my kitchen via side door, T'd off to serve next door neighbour to the left, then through kitchen to service house on other side of me, it was near my rear door the leak happened.
I spoke with the local waterboard man, he was brilliant, he suggested I have each dwelling on an individual toby, which was done, one neighbour was a pain, and did not want their garden dug up (there is another main within our private lane to serve another house, permission was required and granted.) What I had to do though was source a company with a mole'ing machine, while this avoided a garden dig, mole also bored underneath their house as kitchen is at the rear. We all paid our own costs.
Was a fkn faff though, all due to the neighbour not wanting their garden dug up, but ok for my kitchen where their mains water runs under, to be wrecked.
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