Hi guys,
I've been building a bungalow for the last 3 years, I've done everything myself and the build is more or less completed. Now I have a slight problem with the water connection and i'm looking for some advice.
So when we started the foundations I made the connection to the water supply myself (the water supply only feeds 2 more bungalows, so i kindly told them i was turning the water off for 30mins) 30mins later job completed. I took the 25mm blue water pipe through the ground and into the house ready for a water meter.
Now trying to explain this to welsh water is like talking to one of the brick walls, They want me to re dig and put a new pipe in so they can inspect the trench, It's so much work to do now at this stage and they connection I did was perfectly fine, Not only that they want to charge me £1400 to make a connection witch is ridiculous (Gas was £900, Electric £300)
I had trouble with Welsh water when i was going through the sewerage connection stage.
Any advice what I can do? Is making my own connection braking any laws? It's on private land.
Thanks.
I've been building a bungalow for the last 3 years, I've done everything myself and the build is more or less completed. Now I have a slight problem with the water connection and i'm looking for some advice.
So when we started the foundations I made the connection to the water supply myself (the water supply only feeds 2 more bungalows, so i kindly told them i was turning the water off for 30mins) 30mins later job completed. I took the 25mm blue water pipe through the ground and into the house ready for a water meter.
Now trying to explain this to welsh water is like talking to one of the brick walls, They want me to re dig and put a new pipe in so they can inspect the trench, It's so much work to do now at this stage and they connection I did was perfectly fine, Not only that they want to charge me £1400 to make a connection witch is ridiculous (Gas was £900, Electric £300)
I had trouble with Welsh water when i was going through the sewerage connection stage.
Any advice what I can do? Is making my own connection braking any laws? It's on private land.
Thanks.