outside toilet pipe leaking

deanos

ring and explain you cant locate the stoptap for that supply, they should locate it for you

mart.vader

scoobycleaner wrote: »

but the pipe is made of lead and it was bending about 4 feet down the pipe(stoptap 2 foot down bending over 4 foot down). he was watering his plants and it snapped and water was gushing out ,he went to turn the water off by the old main stoptap in the yard. and it did not stop, - where in the morning somebody a friends grandson cause it was made of lead bashed it and squashed it so no water was coming out.

If there's now no stop tap - dig down to where the lead pipe is and bash it over again.

scoobycleaner

Yes at the last resort l will do that. L am just worried in case something goes wrong ,and if l bash at the pipes it might break at floor level and water will starts gushing out and then what major bill

what l would like to know if their is no stoptap how will they stop the water,will they have to dig my floor up or will they go back in the back alley where my main stoptap is(which has no effect on knockng this water off) and dg up the back alley to see where the pipe goes to

thank you

Fire_Fox

Get a couple of recommended plumbers out to quote, you might get useful information or you might get a pleasantly low price.

ilikewatch

Where I live (Lincoln) it is common to have a seperate supply for the house and the outhouse - I have 2 meters and receive a bill for each of them.

There's 2 options I would consider in your situation -

a) Contact your water supplier, explain that a previously capped supply is now leaking and ask whether there would be a charge to attend and repair - my guess is that they would happily do this for free.

b) Get a plumber to attend at your expense. Ask him to re-cap the lead pipe by joining it to plastic (should be easy enough using a lead loc connecter and a pipe freezing kit?) and terminating above ground - one day you, or a subsequent owner of your house might find it beneficial to have a seperate, unmetered supply that the local water board is unaware of