Dear forum members,
I would appreciate your advise on the following:
Recently we have notice abnormally high water consumption in the house with 2 people: ~0.7 c.m. per day out of which 0.4 c.m. (15-16 liters/hour) is unexplainable leakage (?) (no water consumed, no toilet flush, boiler off).
We think this started happening recently after either 1) boiler replacement by British Gas (BG) and/or 2) washing machine/dish washer connection (with relevant re-piping) by a builder.
The reason we think so is - our bills are more than twice higher than those of the previous owners (we moved in only 5 months ago), and we estimated that with the current leakage and even zero water usage they would have paid more than they did. So the leakage must have occurred after we moved in.
We had an engineer from BG today, who examined the boiler and concluded it has nothing to do with the leakage. Also, we have no indication of leakage in the house (neither under the floor nor from the ceiling).
Our builder says that the leakage could be in one of the pipes connecting kitchen (where the main water inlet to the house is) with bathroom. These pipes are under the floor, and he suggest to cut them off and replace them with new ones to be lead from kitchen to bathroom through the loft.
Sorry for the long introduction, but here come my questions:
1) Is there a way to check where's/what's the source of the leakage?
2) Can it be a faulty/wrongly connected water meter? If so, would the water supply company be responsible for fixing that? *)
3) is our builder suggestion (please see above) the best solution for the problem?
Thank you
P.S. *) I think faulty water meter isn't an issue cos with water supply (inlet) valve closed - the meter stops counting. However, it could be faulty in a trickier way, could it?
I would appreciate your advise on the following:
Recently we have notice abnormally high water consumption in the house with 2 people: ~0.7 c.m. per day out of which 0.4 c.m. (15-16 liters/hour) is unexplainable leakage (?) (no water consumed, no toilet flush, boiler off).
We think this started happening recently after either 1) boiler replacement by British Gas (BG) and/or 2) washing machine/dish washer connection (with relevant re-piping) by a builder.
The reason we think so is - our bills are more than twice higher than those of the previous owners (we moved in only 5 months ago), and we estimated that with the current leakage and even zero water usage they would have paid more than they did. So the leakage must have occurred after we moved in.
We had an engineer from BG today, who examined the boiler and concluded it has nothing to do with the leakage. Also, we have no indication of leakage in the house (neither under the floor nor from the ceiling).
Our builder says that the leakage could be in one of the pipes connecting kitchen (where the main water inlet to the house is) with bathroom. These pipes are under the floor, and he suggest to cut them off and replace them with new ones to be lead from kitchen to bathroom through the loft.
Sorry for the long introduction, but here come my questions:
1) Is there a way to check where's/what's the source of the leakage?
2) Can it be a faulty/wrongly connected water meter? If so, would the water supply company be responsible for fixing that? *)
3) is our builder suggestion (please see above) the best solution for the problem?
Thank you
P.S. *) I think faulty water meter isn't an issue cos with water supply (inlet) valve closed - the meter stops counting. However, it could be faulty in a trickier way, could it?
