Hi all,
We live an old Edwardian property that was converted into four flats many years ago. Myself & the owner of the ground floor flat have an outside tap each (The gardens are quite big, so these taps are freestanding, i.e. not mounted to the main building or anything). The single main that feeds both these taps has a hairline crack/split approx 100mm long in it under my neighbour's decking (see photos).
I assume the best thing to do would be to rip up all the decking, re-dig the trench & lay a new main - but you're talking at least 20m of trench (10m of which would be under decking). I've offered to split the cost with my neighbour, but he's not particularly interested in paying hundreds on an outside tap he doesn't use that regularly, which is fair enough I suppose...
Is there an in-situ repair I can do here? I think the pipe is iron/steel & as you can see from the photo, it's pretty lumpy & corroded!
Thanks, Ben.
We live an old Edwardian property that was converted into four flats many years ago. Myself & the owner of the ground floor flat have an outside tap each (The gardens are quite big, so these taps are freestanding, i.e. not mounted to the main building or anything). The single main that feeds both these taps has a hairline crack/split approx 100mm long in it under my neighbour's decking (see photos).
I assume the best thing to do would be to rip up all the decking, re-dig the trench & lay a new main - but you're talking at least 20m of trench (10m of which would be under decking). I've offered to split the cost with my neighbour, but he's not particularly interested in paying hundreds on an outside tap he doesn't use that regularly, which is fair enough I suppose...
Is there an in-situ repair I can do here? I think the pipe is iron/steel & as you can see from the photo, it's pretty lumpy & corroded!
Thanks, Ben.