shared water supply

salfordman

Hello,

Do you know if I can force my neighbour to have his own water suppky without his pipe running through my house?

The supply has got noisier recently and I'd be a lot happy if we both had a separate supply.

I've checked the deeds to the house and there is nothing about the shared water supply.

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olly300

Lots of properties build before 1990 have shared water supplies. I suggest you phone your water company as they have different schemes for fixing or replacing shared pipes. However it's unlikely you can "force" your neighbour to have a separate water supply and you shouldn't want to unless you want a legal dispute.

salfordman

yes but legal wrangle is still preferred to a flood caused by someone elses water supply!!

olly300

salfordman wrote: »

yes but legal wrangle is still preferred to a flood caused by someone elses water supply!!

Really?

So you want your neighbour to try and kill you, or you prefer to run up thousands of pounds of legal costs which means you have to sell your house to pay them. I know those are extreme cases but do you want your neighbour to ensure the entire neighbourhood doesn't talk to you or go out of their way to do things that annoy you? Also if they are a tenant then you are wasting your time.

Just contact your water company and see what they say before having a go at your neighbour.

BTW I know from having a shared electricity supply we couldn't legally force our neighbour to have a separate one even though it didn't cost him anything to have a meter installed. We had to be nice to him instead.

yorksguy11

I share the same problem as you. We have three houses on one stop tap, mine is the middle one where the water main comes in so i have one water pipe going across my ceiling to next door and one going to the other side.
A few years ago i tried to get Yorkshire Water to do something with the pipes been lead. But all they did was send some one round to check my water was safe and told me the majority of old houses were like mine. Then sent me a report saying every thing was safe. Try it anyway when i did it it was free. (not sure now though)
As for the noise try altering your own stop tap slightly up or down, it should stop the noise. It does when i get the same problem as you.