Our house is set back from the water main about 100m up a private lane (owned by the council). To the best of our knowledge the pipe running up the lane is the original one - the house dates from 1880 though I don't know when it got running water. But I think it's an old, large metal pipe like 2-3".
Talking to our local water utility company, they claim they have no record of the pipe up the lane - we wanted to know where it is - and that we own it. That's a lot of very old pipe to be responsible for especially considering it isn't on our land. We can't even get to the water main since it's buried under a pavement on the main road (nobody seems to know where exactly).
Does anyone here know anything about this stuff? Is it something we should be able to challenge or is their word law? I wondered if the fact it's not on the records might just be because it predates their records.
THanks for any thoughts.
Talking to our local water utility company, they claim they have no record of the pipe up the lane - we wanted to know where it is - and that we own it. That's a lot of very old pipe to be responsible for especially considering it isn't on our land. We can't even get to the water main since it's buried under a pavement on the main road (nobody seems to know where exactly).
Does anyone here know anything about this stuff? Is it something we should be able to challenge or is their word law? I wondered if the fact it's not on the records might just be because it predates their records.
THanks for any thoughts.