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And now fixed! One of the 25mm underground pipes had split. Pressure now reads 4 bar everywhere! Many thanks again!

Just to update - it seems you were right! ;) The meter is reading 20 litres per minute with nothing on! :shock: Have spent the whole day digging and it seems we're getting close (large amount of water), so it's only a matter of time before we find the leak. It seems obvious now, but many...

Yes that is exactly what I will do when I can safely get in the road to do so. Certainly there shouldn't be any usage at all with all the taps off.

100m approx - both roughly the same. I do have a meter, but I am quite a high user, so whizzing is about right. The meter is in a manhole on an A road - a bit inconvenient to say the least! :D I will attempt a late-night recon mission after midnight with a car spotter. I have my manhole keys...

The lower pressure tap is actually slightly lower (!) than the higher pressure one, but there is nothing in it really - both about 100m above sea level

I wish I tried that earlier! That will be my first job in the morning. The stopcock is on an A road and requires cones and daylight. I see where you're going with this (underground leak nearer the low pressure pipe), and makes sense. It's just a leak that significant is something I'm sure I...

Same height taps. And I can't think why there would be a PRV underground given the age of the property/pipes. Is an underground PRV commonplace?

The issue is with the static pressure. 1 is 1.1, the other (much closer to the meter) is 2.9. I am assuming a buried tee because both buildings have black pipe coming out of the ground to a stopcock, and when I turn the main stopcock on the meter off both buildings stop. I can't think of a...

At 3am I can assume nothing is using any water. I am attaching the gauge. It is giving me a reading. I turn a tap on and it drops, then I turn the tap off and it goes up again (same reading).

I am using the same gauge

Yes I'm using a Monument pressure tester on a piece of flexi hose. Screwed into the outside tap on the one reading up to 2.9 bar, and tried the outside tap on the other building to get 1.1 bar, then tried directly onto the 22mm pipe coming out of the stopcock to get 1.1 bar too. I haven't...

I'm assuming I'd probably not get a fairly consistent 2.9 bar and 20+ l/m on the other stopcock though if that were the case. I only have a 22mm supply.

I have a strange one: Big property, 22mm meter in a manhole, going to an underground pipe. Then an underground tee so that I have 2 pipes rising out of the ground in seperate buildings, each with a 3/4 inch stopcock. 1 reads 2.9 bar, the other reads 1.1 bar. How can that be?! Yes if I turn...