Hi, I've been inquiring previously about hot water cylinders and what to do with my poor mains cold flow rate etc via this thread :-
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/water-flow-rate-and-unvented-cylinder-question.502146/page-2
However, things have very much moved on so I thought I'd branch into another thread as this has now turned into another issue entirely.
So, in order to remove the two old internal stopcocks the plumber needed to turn off the mains supply in the street. Problem 1 - where is it ???. Nothing outside my house. There's one next door in front of my neighbours house so that must be it - a shared supply / stopcock. Nope - turning this off didnt affect our supply
So it must be the one two doors down ??. However, this stopcock was very old and was seized closed. Severn Trent now on the case to renew / fix but its likely that this one is ours.
Now, the bigger issue here is that it seems that this supply is shared between three houses and my plumber suggests that this is not right and should be fixed by Severn Trent. Upon giving this further thought we have realised that the other two houses were built (probs 40 odd years ago) on land originally owned by the property I am living in and the builders wrongly or rightly connected all three properties to this original supply / stopcock which lies outside the farthest property from me.
Whilst Severn Trent look into this I wonder if anyone has knowledge or experience with this type of situation, specifically :-
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/water-flow-rate-and-unvented-cylinder-question.502146/page-2
However, things have very much moved on so I thought I'd branch into another thread as this has now turned into another issue entirely.
So, in order to remove the two old internal stopcocks the plumber needed to turn off the mains supply in the street. Problem 1 - where is it ???. Nothing outside my house. There's one next door in front of my neighbours house so that must be it - a shared supply / stopcock. Nope - turning this off didnt affect our supply
So it must be the one two doors down ??. However, this stopcock was very old and was seized closed. Severn Trent now on the case to renew / fix but its likely that this one is ours.
Now, the bigger issue here is that it seems that this supply is shared between three houses and my plumber suggests that this is not right and should be fixed by Severn Trent. Upon giving this further thought we have realised that the other two houses were built (probs 40 odd years ago) on land originally owned by the property I am living in and the builders wrongly or rightly connected all three properties to this original supply / stopcock which lies outside the farthest property from me.
Whilst Severn Trent look into this I wonder if anyone has knowledge or experience with this type of situation, specifically :-
- I am aware that external supplies / stop cocks can be shared between two properties but is it ok to share between 3 properties ? If not, should Severn Trent address it without charge ?
- I am now concerned that the feed pipe to my house thus runs beneath these two other properties before it gets to mine. Is that plausible or should I not be worrying ?
- Also, bearing in mind that homeowners are now responsible for pipework starting from the external stopcock, so who is responsible for putting this right ?. I would be quite miffed if I had to pay for a new feed into my house from any new external stopcock that Severn Trent may install