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Hiya, looking for a bit of advice. I was told when I had a plumber round at my property when I first purchased it that we were on a galvanised or lead pipe mains supply. Not really knowing what those looked like, I trusted that the dirty black pipe was what he said it was.
I’ve ended up applying and being accepted to our water suppliers lead pipe replacement scheme, so we had planned to lay the new blue MDPE.
I came to do some work on the water main yesterday (fit a new temp stopcock as current one leaks) and I’ve found that the pipe is the old imperial black plastic pipe.
I turned the water off at the boundary stopcock and went to plumbers merchant with an cut of the pipe and they’ve said it’s 3/4” class D pipe. It’s roughly 22mm with an internal diameter of about 15mm. They gave me a 22mm straight coupler with a brass 3/4” olive, which I’ve now temporarily connected to some 25mm MDPE, with a stopcock going to 15mm copper & drain off.
- I’m now kind of stuck on what to do and would like some advice.
Is this stuff worth ripping out and replacing with blue pipe? I know 25mm plastic would be better flow than 15mm plastic, but is there any other downside? I’m not even sure if the water company will replace the pipe now.
- Is it even worth messing around with my 25mm MDPE or should I just go straight from this 22mm into 15mm copper.
I’ve ended up applying and being accepted to our water suppliers lead pipe replacement scheme, so we had planned to lay the new blue MDPE.
I came to do some work on the water main yesterday (fit a new temp stopcock as current one leaks) and I’ve found that the pipe is the old imperial black plastic pipe.
I turned the water off at the boundary stopcock and went to plumbers merchant with an cut of the pipe and they’ve said it’s 3/4” class D pipe. It’s roughly 22mm with an internal diameter of about 15mm. They gave me a 22mm straight coupler with a brass 3/4” olive, which I’ve now temporarily connected to some 25mm MDPE, with a stopcock going to 15mm copper & drain off.
- I’m now kind of stuck on what to do and would like some advice.
Is this stuff worth ripping out and replacing with blue pipe? I know 25mm plastic would be better flow than 15mm plastic, but is there any other downside? I’m not even sure if the water company will replace the pipe now.
- Is it even worth messing around with my 25mm MDPE or should I just go straight from this 22mm into 15mm copper.