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Where's my stopcock gone?
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If that is the incoming mains supply, then never in a million years has that been approved by the Water Company. Its nowhere near complying with Regs!
Inadequate frost protection for starters. As they've skimped on that, it would make me question what else they've not done to regs, underground pipe needs to be minimum 760mm deep for frost protection, and if you intend to bring supply up and through the wall externally, the Groundbreaker Insuduct is the correct method, the insulation on that is to the required standard to protect the pipe.
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It looks like the house has wooden floors so it would have been possible to drill through from the trench for an underground entry. This would have been more work, and more disruption, but a proper job.
Replacement water supply pipes are supposed to be inspected by the water company or laid by one of their approved contractors. IME (not much) they are quite hot on correct depth.
Replacement water supply pipes are supposed to be inspected by the water company or laid by one of their approved contractors. IME (not much) they are quite hot on correct depth.
Must agree - I would find it difficult to believe that the water transporter has OK'd the mains coming out of the ground like that.
A 25mm x 22mm MDPE stop tap could easily have been used in there too.
A 25mm x 22mm MDPE stop tap could easily have been used in there too.
Ideally there would be an internal mains stop tap, invariably they are located in the space under the kitchen sink - usually looking like or similar to this -
OK, more often than not, IMENope.
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