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staffordshire moorlands. This is becoming a ballache so i think i am going to just get a Philmac kit and splice a piece of 25mm into it. Now where's my spade :|

Horses for courses. Came home today and there had been a big hole dug under the downstairs toilet window, and filled-in again. When I went in, there was a note pushed through the door saying 'work not completed - burst under house'. Which is strange because the stopcock is just the other...

not a dj for a living.... am an electrical engineer water frightens me

I don't know--yet. The underground leak repair will be free, (I've just signed a form to say I will accept a plain tarmaced finish repair...but I already have a plain tarmaced drive) but I dont know about the huge water bill the meter's registered since it was last read. At the end of the day...

Minor update to this, had the water folk around and the chap said that about 15 years ago they came to all these houses on the estate replacing the old alkathene with blue stuff from the pavement to the house....but...they joined the blue to the black just outside the front doors rather than...

Salus are essentially rebadged chinese things and have the same guts as others eg Towerstat / Sunvic. I fitted a towerstat on my parents boiler a few years ago, it lasted just outside the warranty then the receiver failed. I replaced it with a Salus and that has worked ever since. That works...

not at the moment because saturday is washing day!

done all that, it was very, very stiff indeed. It's now free. I found a new washer and have put it together..now it shuts off. :) Just got to keep an eye on the draindown valve as that's weeping now... But back to the original problem, meter is still whizzing with this valve shut. The...

no idea what class c or d means. Here are the pics now its apart. The tap is seized solid, we're in a very hard water area here from borehole. I am going to take it into work in a minute and see what I can do

well I've dismantled all the plywood boxing-in..which has meant taking the skirting off as well...so now I have better access. I am tempted to dismantle the stopcock as you say, but I'd like the option of a new one just in case, so I want my facts right! If I do get a 22mm tap to fit, will I...

I'm confused. The black service pipe has an OD of 21mm measured with my calipers. Can anyone tell me what size pipe I have? 21 doesn't translate to any round imperial figure unless the imperial is rated by ID? :cry:

Next question , then regarding a new stop cock! I glanced at the plastic service pipe yesterday, looked in the plumbing fittings catalogue and they only do 20 or 25mm, well it's thicker than 20 so I bought the 25mm stopcock. It's way too big! I got the caliper out and it's measuring an OD of...

arrived home tonight and there was a card pushed through the letterbox. Severn-Trent had been to investigate and couldn't get in...despite telling me the appointment was for next tuesday. I can hear a gentle hissing from the rising main, obviously conducted from outside somewhere. I am...

There are only conventional toilets here with overflows, i can isolate everything with the service valves anyhow, there's no leak in the house. As I'm not a plumber, the condition of the main stopcock is not exactly at the forefront of my day-to-day mind. Last time I used it was when I fitted...

No the stopcock in the house is seized. However there's no way that £700 worth of water has poured into my house without me noticing! The metering services guy from Enterprise came last night as it was on his way home, he suggested I reported it as a fault to the leak line. I did that and...

Just had the severn trent man ring after a bit of prompting, he says that the type of meter I have fitted doesn't go wrong and that's the end of their involvement in the matter. It's left me a bit in the lurch, do I start digging my drive up?

OK that's my meter, the white tap is on the street side, ie opposite the house-side of the meter. http://media.diynot.com/29000_28768_49839_90214655_thumb.jpg