Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm interested in this insuduct thing (I'm shortly to embark on waper pipe replacement, and the idea of hanging down a 2ft 6 hole (even if its a FBH) trying to tunnel through the foundations of a victorian (mostly stone) wall isn't something I'm looking forward to.
I had a look on their website and it looks good. Just wondering what people's experiences of using this were and if anyone would recommend it (or not). Do you need the mdpe 'hockey stick' they mention? (Having tried bending 25mm mdpe pipe in the past I assume the answer's probably yes or it's not going to bend enough to go through the hole into the wall.....)
Also, everything else I've read about this says the water co. need to inspect the whole trench and the entry point to the house, and that you can't backfill undtil they have been and inspected it. However, the lady from Dwr Cymru just told me on the phone that they only need to inspect a 'short length' of trench and aren't interested in what's been done at the house end. She was a little bit sketchy on some of the other details, so based on this I'm thinking either
(a) she's wrong, and I'll fill in the trench and then be asked to dig it all up again. Sort of thing I might look back on in 20 years and laugh about, but probably likely to upset me quite a bit at the time.
(b) different water companies have different rules
Is there anyone in the Dwr Cymru area who's replaced their water pipes recently who can confirm what actually happened...?
I had a look on their website and it looks good. Just wondering what people's experiences of using this were and if anyone would recommend it (or not). Do you need the mdpe 'hockey stick' they mention? (Having tried bending 25mm mdpe pipe in the past I assume the answer's probably yes or it's not going to bend enough to go through the hole into the wall.....)
Also, everything else I've read about this says the water co. need to inspect the whole trench and the entry point to the house, and that you can't backfill undtil they have been and inspected it. However, the lady from Dwr Cymru just told me on the phone that they only need to inspect a 'short length' of trench and aren't interested in what's been done at the house end. She was a little bit sketchy on some of the other details, so based on this I'm thinking either
(a) she's wrong, and I'll fill in the trench and then be asked to dig it all up again. Sort of thing I might look back on in 20 years and laugh about, but probably likely to upset me quite a bit at the time.
(b) different water companies have different rules
Is there anyone in the Dwr Cymru area who's replaced their water pipes recently who can confirm what actually happened...?
