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I am replacing a galv water pipe 40 meters up to the main in the road. 25mm egeplast barrier pipe laid and pulled into house, all done to regs I think, but to find something to connect to I started digging through the old stone wall by the road, and all the loose earth Severn Trent had filled their exploratory hole with my side of the meter just fell out. So now it looks like this with about 6 inches of grade in the top:
So I could maybe connect onto that short 25mm tail or I could put a longer piece of blue on the bottom elbow. My puzzle is that the water meter is about 12 inches out from the tarmac edging.
So if I connect onto the meter tail I will need to leave it for them to inspect. Are they going to get grumpy about me digging beyond my boundary? The road is a narrow country lane dead end so nothing goes through here faster than 15mph to the 5 houses after mine, and nothing drives between the meter and my boundary due to a nearby wall. There is tarmac between the wall and the edging but grassed over.
So do I go onto that little tail, which leaves one fitting underground instead of 3, and a better flow line?
Or do I replace the six inches of blue that went to the galv coupling from the bottom fitting, using a longer piece that comes to my side of the wall, put the wall back and fill in hole behind the wall, and just show them a coupling onto the MDPE on my side of the boundary? The pressure on the main is high, about 7 bar, and we are just two older folks in a bungalow, so the extra fittings probably don’t really matter flow wise. We were used to the 10 mm sq left in the middle of the 3/8 ! galv pipe anyway.
Any advice on Severn Trents flexibility appreciated. I don’t really want them to decide they want hundreds? of pounds off me just to satisfy themselves that the road edge is put back how they think it should be.
The reason there’s a wall underground is that there used to be an outhouse cut into the ground below the road with an 18 inch back wall, Which is why the distance from the pit to the water meter is a couple of feet.
So I could maybe connect onto that short 25mm tail or I could put a longer piece of blue on the bottom elbow. My puzzle is that the water meter is about 12 inches out from the tarmac edging.
So if I connect onto the meter tail I will need to leave it for them to inspect. Are they going to get grumpy about me digging beyond my boundary? The road is a narrow country lane dead end so nothing goes through here faster than 15mph to the 5 houses after mine, and nothing drives between the meter and my boundary due to a nearby wall. There is tarmac between the wall and the edging but grassed over.
So do I go onto that little tail, which leaves one fitting underground instead of 3, and a better flow line?
Or do I replace the six inches of blue that went to the galv coupling from the bottom fitting, using a longer piece that comes to my side of the wall, put the wall back and fill in hole behind the wall, and just show them a coupling onto the MDPE on my side of the boundary? The pressure on the main is high, about 7 bar, and we are just two older folks in a bungalow, so the extra fittings probably don’t really matter flow wise. We were used to the 10 mm sq left in the middle of the 3/8 ! galv pipe anyway.
Any advice on Severn Trents flexibility appreciated. I don’t really want them to decide they want hundreds? of pounds off me just to satisfy themselves that the road edge is put back how they think it should be.
The reason there’s a wall underground is that there used to be an outhouse cut into the ground below the road with an 18 inch back wall, Which is why the distance from the pit to the water meter is a couple of feet.
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