no outside stopcock !!!!

almond

deanos wrote: »

Maybe the cable he wanted to use inside would have been a cat & genny or RD500, they would have used this to trace the outside pipe and find your stop tap

hi
thats what they want to do but when he saw it he said "oh thats a bit tight in the wall could cause problems" so thats whats worrying me
going to ring them tomorrow

DVardysShadow

almond wrote: »

hi
just thought if i posted a pic of nextdoors (mine is the one with black car) you might get an idea of the problem

Suggest you remove this link. Your neighbour may not be too chuffed to find his house plastered across the internet.

deanos

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Suggest you remove this link. Your neighbour may not be too chuffed to find his house plastered across the internet.

Why its up for sale , good advertising !

davetrousers

When was it tarmacced (sp?) over, before or after the Google Streetview picture?

If after, use Streetview to locate it and chip away at the tarmac. If before get a metal detector and detect (only useful if it's an older metal cover), then chip away at the tarmac.

uncovered

the stoptap outside is the water companies responsibility and is situated for their use. Yes you can use it at your own risk, break it and you will pay for the repair.

The meter installations are free of charge. By the sounds of it they want to send the sonde down your pipe and trace it internally. What they would do there is turn the main off in the street, take your internal stoptap off and send a wire down your pipe which is sending out a signal and the the cat will pick up the signal underground. I am assuming that your supply pipe is non mettalic.

You say that all you want them to do is dig up a bit of the road, I think you need to realise the cost of the holes that are dug up in roads. On average I would say that each hole costs around £350. It costs around £70 just to get a notice from the council to allow us to dig up the footpath. Then you have the cost of the labour, then the removal of the spoil, cost of backfill and then the reinstatement. Two holes, £700 . Not cost effective for the water company when that could be four years+ of your water rates (excluding sewerage charges).

What will happen now is that they will have two attempts to find your stoptap externally. If this is unsuccesfull then the only option will be an internal meter, assuming that there is not more than two points of entry to your property.