Still leaking..:( help please

[JohnD]

if you can work out about where a leak is, the new pipe doesn't have to follow the same route. So you might be able to avoid digging up the floor by drilling at an angle to come out through the external wall to emerge below ground level. You'd need a big SDS+ drill and either a very long drill or an extension.

You can hire these things, but Screwfix sell a heavyweight 6kg budget drill for (I think) about £60. If you have just one heavy job to do, and it goes wrong in guarantee, they will exchange it, so you will get your money's worth. Sometimes they have an offer to include a kit of budget steels for about the same price. It is too heavy for most DIY jobs. You can also use it with a chisel steel to break up concrete.

If you can afford more, there are better ones.

 

[Nige F]

South Staffs water don’t have plans of the water pipe layout but they have said some one could come and listen for a leak...

Good plan - also you could do a smoke test in your manhole and see if there's a connection to the broken pipe @ the gulley.

 

[dilalio]

you could do a smoke test in your manhole

Are you telling him to "blow smoke up his ass"? That's not very nice Nige!

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Unlikely South Staffs will be responsible for the section from the road to the property, downstream of the stoptap, but no harm in asking. Water supply for a property of that era is most likely to be lead, and may be up to 3ft underground for frost protection.

If going down the new supply route, look at the Insuduct. Saves a hell of a lot of digging. https://groundbreaker.co.uk/products/insuduct/