When replacing the old lead or copper cold water supply from the street to inside the property, if the main stopcock and meter is in the street pavement, are we allow to connect the new blue pipe to the street stopcock or can we only go up to the boundary?
In our case we have a double thick high wall between my front garden and the boundary line so I don't know how we can fit the new pipe to the stopcock which will have a 28mm or whatever size connection.
We also had a plumber suggest that we should go 32mm or 36mm blue pipe into our property because we have 5 bathrooms and 2 W/C (of course not all will be used at the same time). We have internal 22mm pipe runs branching off to 15mm in each bathroom. Will eventually have a 300litre mega flow so he's saying for the increase in marginal cost of material, we might get better flow rate even if the mains pipe it connects to is going to be small than our bue pipe.
Any thoughts?
In our case we have a double thick high wall between my front garden and the boundary line so I don't know how we can fit the new pipe to the stopcock which will have a 28mm or whatever size connection.
We also had a plumber suggest that we should go 32mm or 36mm blue pipe into our property because we have 5 bathrooms and 2 W/C (of course not all will be used at the same time). We have internal 22mm pipe runs branching off to 15mm in each bathroom. Will eventually have a 300litre mega flow so he's saying for the increase in marginal cost of material, we might get better flow rate even if the mains pipe it connects to is going to be small than our bue pipe.
Any thoughts?