Main Bonding plastic pipes

[overskilled]

I have copper incoming pipework, though they were out about the drains (thankfully out of my way...)
and I was warned to look out for the incoming water main, and what to do if anything looks "unusual"...call them..

 

[Geordie Spark]

Just bond it and get it over with.....
If it wasn't for that stop cock being there, I would have considered boxing it in and adding a new stop cock with plastic each side....

Though in a recent site conversation Scottish Water said to me they are keen to remove lead water pipes supplying homes as they tend to leak (mainly as they are getting on in years....). Especially so when your doing building work anyway...SW guy I spoke to said if there had been a lead supply present they would have asked for a trench, installed a duct and alkathene pipework and then disconnected the lead pipework.

Yes that was the case here too.

I was working for a builder who was buying older properties and we were renovating them - and I mean "renovating" them - it was a joy to be working on them.

They were all connected to the street mains by lead piping and all we had to do was dig a trench from the building to the boundary and lay our plastic 25mm pipe from there into the building and our stop cock. The water company would dig from there out to their main and connect it to our pipe. We then just had to fill the trench.

There was no charge from the water company.

 

[overskilled]

SW reckoned they were responsible for anything pre house stop cock....oddly enough
Did say they reckoned the incomer could possibly run under the garage...but its unlikely and there is room to re-route it under the path...
Pretty sound bloke actually, seems they went to alkathene just after this place was built as the guy coming out lives a few towns over, in a house of very similar design but his incomer is alkathene whereas mine is copper....so must have been just prior to changeover...

 

[Geordie Spark]

SW reckoned they were responsible for anything pre house stop cock....oddly enough
Did say they reckoned the incomer could possibly run under the garage...but its unlikely and there is room to re-route it under the path...
Pretty sound bloke actually, seems they went to alkathene just after this place was built as the guy coming out lives a few towns over, in a house of very similar design but his incomer is alkathene whereas mine is copper....so must have been just prior to changeover...

Aye .. I think all the different water companies have their own ideas - same as the leccy companies so it can be literally a case of crossing the street and finding different rules apply.

 

[overskilled]

Warned its not overly difficult to split a plastic main with a spade....so be canny around 2 ft 6 down....if I dissappear sometime in the spring...I;ve been drowned by a burst water main....

 

[i=p/u]

No Fukn about, you don't need if plastic incomer.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Warned its not overly difficult to split a plastic main with a spade....so be canny around 2 ft 6 down....if I dissappear sometime in the spring...I;ve been drowned by a burst water main....

Aye .. that's the depth we were told to dig and use pea gravel and sand under and above the pipe.

I remember we asked about running it through a duct and were told there was no need.

 

[GMES]

I'd have preferred to see another inch or two

Exactly what our lass said the other night :freak: