burst pipes anyone?

[DHTiling]

we've been out since 10am at the swimming pool

Have to bathe somewhere when no water on hey!..:lol:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

good, now get that washing up done

dishwasher has done it's stuff John :smilewinkgrin:

 

[doug boardley]

Have to bathe somewhere when no water on hey!..:lol:

you should've seen the other bathers when Liz started shaving her legs in the pool!

 

[Scott]

Hope she didnt leave a ring

 

[Deleted member 9966]

update on the pipe situation.

plumber has just been out to fix the leaking stop tap in the house. that was a 5 minute job, done, easy peasy. we then told him about the frozen pipes over Christmas and he suggested he look in the water grids in the pavement. we have 2 outside our house for some reason and we always thought the one directly in front of our property was for our mains water pipe. plumber disagrees. he thinks that one belongs to next door. the other grid is on the bend in the pavement (we're a corner plot) and he had to dredge up loads of muck out of the grid but finally found a stop tap. he thinks that one is ours.

but in both grids, he put his tap turner down the hole which should sink down to the depth of the tap and leave about 20cm at the most, at the top, but in both grids, the tap turner only sank about 20cm into each grid.

safe to say that our mains water pipe is not sunk to 75cm as the regs say it should be :mad2:

 

[DHTiling]

Then you need to get onto NHBC to get it sorted.?

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Then you need to get onto NHBC to get it sorted.?

I guess so. Either that or Barratts who built the house.

 

[DHTiling]

I would Liz.. that is deffo a big prob..

 

[Deleted member 9966]

gonna start with Severn Trent and get them to write a report. then we'll pass to NHBC and Barratts to sort out at their expense. somebody came out to inspect it when it was installed and they passed it. I'll make sure somebody gets a whooping :yesnod:

 

[doug boardley]

building control should've checked it too.

 

[Mike]

as with any complaint you'll have to get in touch with barratt first then if no joy get in touch with nhbc, i bought a new house some years ago, never again. you wouldnt believe the faults it had, one was when i got the gas fire fitted, when the plumber turned the gas on water came out! i also had to have half the house re-pebbledashed. how long you lived there grr? some of the warranties run out after 2 yrs but the mains sound like that would come under the 10 year nhbc cover

 

[Deleted member 9966]

as with any complaint you'll have to get in touch with barratt first then if no joy get in touch with nhbc, i bought a new house some years ago, never again. you wouldnt believe the faults it had, one was when i got the gas fire fitted, when the plumber turned the gas on water came out! i also had to have half the house re-pebbledashed. how long you lived there grr? some of the warranties run out after 2 yrs but the mains sound like that would come under the 10 year nhbc cover

we've been here nearly 3 years, but the house was built in 2003. we know it was the last house on the estate to be built because friends of ours used to live around the corner when the estate first went up in 2001. our plot was the site compound for the builders. basically where all the site offices and equipment/materials/diggers were kept.

 

[Mike]

hopefully you'll be still be covered but as you say it may lay with the water board as they've probably adopted the road by now

 

[doug boardley]

our rising main blew off just after the cold snap, luckily it was the wash-house one, and it blew off the stopcock at the bottom end, and luckily still we have a stopcock in the house to isolate it. So I guess that somewhere your main pipe has to rise above the minimum level to supply your house and this is where valves, taps, joints, olives and inserts are located, all potential pressure release valves really!

 

[Deleted member 9966]

hopefully you'll be still be covered but as you say it may lay with the water board as they've probably adopted the road by now

funnily enough Mike, our road still hasn't been adopted even 10 years after they started building and even considering our house was the last one to be built in 2003. I bet everybody tries to shirk their responsibilities.