Recent content by Oldguyglos

So the answer is no they wont get grumpy! (At least in my case). As the leaks helpline told me when I phoned them saying I was finished the inspector only checks that the leak has been fixed and does not inspect the work done at all! I received a letter confirming that I don’t leak any more...

No I wasn’t in the trade. I’m an engineer who likes to do his own trades work when practical, and the internet is an amazing place for picking up info quickly now. Also I do have a 20mm MDPE irrigation system in my garden so I have met PE and PE fittings. I settled on barrier pipe both...

I’m an engineer, I live with uncertainty everyday, I guess I have got hardened to it :LOL: Do they insulate the water pipe rising to their side of the water meter? Or to put it another way, why don’t they put their meter 750mm underground? Thanks for the gravel suggestion, good idea. At...

@Andy165 I was expecting that kind of stuff. When I spoke to the leaks support line I said I was going to lay the pipe because I didnt want cost/diggers in my garden and asked what do I do to request the meter reconnection. The lady didn’t know and called the supervisor in who said just make...

So it seems that Severn Trent are really not very interested in leak repair work that you do yourself. I guess it’s such a small number of people that they don’t have a process to notice that I have done an entire pipe replacement. I phoned to ask for an inspection and was told I don’t get...

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...