What have you been doing today?

Is Louis Armstrong still hiding in your pipework?
Not this morning but I now have another problem which may or may not be connected. I am using approx 25 litres of water per hour between the street stopcock/water meter and my internal stopcock and I haven’t got a clue where to start! Could be under my drive, could be under my floorboards. My insurance company are being all cùnty about it saying indoors covered, outside not. Do you know if those water leak tracing companies are any good?
 
Not this morning but I now have another problem which may or may not be connected. I am using approx 25 litres of water per hour between the street stopcock/water meter and my internal stopcock and I haven’t got a clue where to start! Could be under my drive, could be under my floorboards. My insurance company are being all cùnty about it saying indoors covered, outside not. Do you know if those water leak tracing companies are any good?

Happened to us once, got a very high water bill, water company weren't interested but told us how to test it. We were covered for external leaks on the household insurance but I gather this is quite rare these days.
 
Waterboard have their own insurance that you can join. A few pounds a month and they cover everything from the main stop cocking the street.
 
Waterboard have their own insurance that you can join. A few pounds a month and they cover everything from the main stop cocking the street.
Most probably worth tuppence hapenny. Lots of the calls I get is from people who have insurance but struggle to get them out and get the job done.
 
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They told me on Monday that they would be fitting a new street box. When the stroppy 'femgineer' (not my words, someone else on here!) turned up she said she wasn’t replacing the street box as that’s a big job, (a man’s job? :mrgreen:) she just fitted a new meter and said she’d changed the non return valve. I've just phoned them up to ask them to double check their work before I went any further as I hadn’t notice any water loss before the meter change, I was told that I am down to have a new street box fitted but they are snowed under at the moment with big leaks and she said for me to do nothing until they’ve done their bit. She said as long as it’s not leaking in the house, don't worry! Easy for her to say that.
 
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