Need a WRAS approved plumber, Oldham

[craigap]

Hi

We are currently on a shared water feed and want to go on a dedicated feed. This has been approved by UU but we need the internal works carrying out ASAP.
The front garden is barely 4' to the boundary wall from the house and is currently soil, etc., so minimal trenching.

However need a quote and ideally works carrying out by w/c 2nd March, if not WRAS ideally next week to give a chance for the works to be inspected by UU as I will need to relay the flooring.

Please PM me if you are interested and can meet the time scales.

Craig

 

[muggles]

You won't find a plumber who will do trench-digging in your garden, you need a builder for that

 

[ree]

What? Every plumber that calls him or herself a plumber has, in my experience, dug trenches and pits - an everyday occurrence.

OP, you dont need a WRAS plumber - anyone can do the work just so long as it meets your Utilities standard.

If the common supply is lead then its sometimes possible to get the Utility to do more than make an inspection.

 

[muggles]

You're in America, things might be different there. I personally don't mind driving a digger but most people won't want to pay me £40 per hour to do something a builder would almost certainly do for half that.

The utility companies won't pay to replace lead on your boundary

 

[Madrab]

Yup, have to agree. In the UK then there are companies that specialise in trench digging and external plumbing work. Yes they are plumbers but are specialists in external work. Due to HSE safety regs etc a lot of normal plumbers wouldn't have the excavation nor safety training/quals to undertake such works to the required standards (shoring, soil type risk assessments, service avoidance, etc).
Unfortunately digging a trench to say >1m safely in the UK isn't as straighforward as hiring a kabota and away you go.

Being WRAS qualified (Water Regs) avoids the need for the supplier/LA inspection of the work and the subsequent cost for that.

True that if the supply is lead then the supplier will usually replace up to the boundary but then it's over to the owner. Then it's usually subsidised by a council grant.

 

[ree]

My location is irrelevant. Would you consider the OP's neighbour, who works in a chip shop, more qualified to post on this by virtue of being nearby?
Technical advice stands or falls on its technical competence.

Are you proposing to use a digger to trench out four feet of garden at a typical depth of 750mm?

I'm presuming that you claim to be a professional plumber, and you are implying that every time digging is required you call in a builder?

Please explain the phrase: "lead on your boundary"?

 

[ree]

Madrab,

"In the UK ... " Are you an idiot, i've already discussed this location business with you on another thread, and here you go again with the same foolish assertion that knowledge apparently lies in a postal address? As in the weird logic of: anyone who lives near a gym must be fit?

Point 1. I'm obviously not talking about specialist companies but the average plumber - statistics tell us that the average plumber is a one man band jobbing plumber.
Jobbing plumbers do water supply trenching, dig out gullies, lay drainage, and even dig out and move manholes.

Hiring a kubota? Straightforward? Who said that it was?

Point 2. Anyone can dig and make the connection - no cost involved for the OP.

 

[Madrab]

Ree...please don't start again..things can obviously be done differently in different countries, different standards, regs, working practices, quals, workforces etc...that's not difficult even for me to understand. Therefore experience of local working practices are clearly tied to location. And I stress...that's only my opinion
I would never presume to aggressively argue against a professional from abroad that just has a difference of opinion due to them having much more local experience of how things are done in their location.

I'm an idiot cause you say so and argue the point to the nth degree...so I'll leave it for the OP to decide