Hi all

I have an old lead pipe water feed, which runs from my water meter on the pavement across my garden, then under my living room floor before it appears in the kitchen. It then come out of the floor, feeds upstairs to the bathroom and spurs off back under the floor to feed the ground floor.

I have just had the kitchen refited and reworked the pipework under the floor, what I plan to do if feasible is to lay a new water pipe into my downstairs toilet (straight from outside), fit a new stop tap and fit it into the existing cold water feed in here, it is about 3 meters from the exisiting entry point and then remove the old tap and internal lead piping. What I would like to know is if this is allowable under regulations, and whether anyone thinks the extra distance the water will need to travel will be an issue.

If there are no issues my plan would be to fit the stop tap and blue pipe and run the feed into the cold water pipes (with the stop tap closed) in the downstairs loo, ready for switchover to the new supply, then it would just be a case of turning on the new stop tap when the water board turn up and allowing me to remove the old internal lead piping at my leisure.

Thanks

Craig

All the work is notifiable before you start.

Replace the lot back to the meter would be the best bet, the supplier may do it under a lead replacement program if you ask.

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Hiya

I plan to replace the full lead pipe under the replacement scheme with the new blue poly pipe, I plan to connect at the new point in the house, who is it notifiable too?

Cheers

Craig

Water supplier.

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Scruff, how does the lead replacement programs work?

Do they do the whole thing (I guess it's done using a mole?) and any idea of typical cost - or is it per house basis?

My rising main is lead...(not done me any harm DUrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRR )

BG

If the supplier has a replacement program it could be free.

Normally you dig and lay the pipe and they'll do the connection FOC.

For the OP, it needs 750mm cover, and an entry sleeve into the building, 750mm from the outside wall.

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HIya

Thanks for the info, I have read the regs, not really sure what the entry sleeve is, or how its meant to work. The picture on it are a bit confusing.

My understanding is that I have to run the blue pipe 1m underground then it needs to enter the building and be insulated and put in ducting (no idea what this is or where to buy it) I am not sure if I can run the pipe in through the external wall and then bring it immediately up that wall. To connect into my pipework.

Where the pipe enters the building it goes in a duct, normally a 100mm flexible pipe and sealed both ends.

You maintain the minimum 750mm from the outside into the building or it can be insulated where that is not practical.

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Thanks scruff

That seems a lot clearer for the external pipe work, can you see any issue with my plan?

Cheers

Craig

No real issues depending on your supplier.

They may want to inspect the internal work before they do the connection.

You need to talk to them and get the inspector involved

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