Our extension water connection comes across a field and under the road. The water meter is 200m away and we are responsible for the pipework from the water meter until it enters our property. The reason for the remote location of the meter is that the water main only came this far up the road when the water was installed in the early 1980’s. Now the water main runs right past the house.
A new connection cost us around £800, but Yorkshire Water wanted £1,000 to remove the old meter. The solution was to turn the stop tap off to the old meter and carrying on pay a reduced monthly charge.
It only took a couple of hours to connect it all up. We had dug the trenches and installed the water pipes into the property. We are now a two tap family – one next to the polytunnel and one hanging out of the Utility room window!
The new water connection was installed yesterday. This means that we can capped off the old water main that runs across a neighbour’s field! Apparently, it will be a couple of days before they return to replace the tarmac.
We have installed a temporary tap on the end of the new water supply. This means that the builders don’t have to tramp in the house to get water.