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[Goldstone1976]

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[happypig]

Do people even drink tap water these days

I do, I like the taste of the water that comes out of the tap here. I should point out that it's an ordinary tap without a poncy softener or filter.

 

[Weststander]

Do people even drink tap water these days

Yes.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I do, I like the taste of the water that comes out of the tap here. I should point out that it's an ordinary tap without a poncy softener or filter.

Hard as !

You and your water

 

[Goldstone1976]

I do, I like the taste of the water that comes out of the tap here. I should point out that it's an ordinary tap without a poncy softener or filter.

Me too. The softener idea was to combat limescale issues in the central heating and washing machine. The water here is very hard.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Hi, that's helpful - who did the plumbing?

Just a google photo, in my case I have a fridge that dispenses water so we have a hard water feed to that.

Pavilion Plumbing and Heating did my install, they've been great, and would recommend, as do some actual plumbers on here too.

 

[BN9 BHA]

You’d think so - but my situation may put the lie to that assumption. Three years ago I bought a new place, and looked at putting a softener in. From where the supply enters the property there’s a minimum of 24m of run to my kitchen sink. I know for sure that at least 2 x 1m sections of that run are lead. I’m guessing it all is. At least half of the run is under a solid floor. Rather than dig up the floor for 24m, I did without a softener.

I don’t suppose there’s a simpler solution that I didn’t consider?

I would get an estimate to get a new water main.
A specialist company will do this using a machine called a mole. I've seen homes have this done when there has been a leak underground on the incoming water supply.

Best to Google Water main replacement or ask advice from your water supplier.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I would get an estimate to get a new water main.
A specialist company will do this using a machine called a mole. I've seen homes have this done when there has been a leak underground on the incoming water supply.

Best to Google Water main replacement or ask advice from your water supplier.

Thanks v much. I bet that will be expensive - probably more than £50, I reckon. I'll get a quote.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Thanks v much. I bet that will be expensive - probably more than £50, I reckon. I'll get a quote.

Not sure of price but I'm sure it's more than £50, but it's worth getting rid of the lead pipe and you can have a softener fitted.

 

[Goldstone1976]

... I'm sure it's more than £50...

me too.4 figures, I would think.

It wouldn't surprise me if the main feed from the big pipe in the road to my property is also lead.... I'll talk to Anglian water.

 

[The Clamp]

Noticed a plumber arrive at flat below ours this morning. Popped down and the guy underneath us was having problems with his water so he turned the main stopcock off, for some reason this switched the cold water off in our kitchen too. The guy sorted it in about 30 seconds.
Thanks for all the advice folks, saved us a few sheckles.
Cheers
TC

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Just a google photo, in my case I have a fridge that dispenses water so we have a hard water feed to that.

Pavilion Plumbing and Heating did my install, they've been great, and would recommend, as do some actual plumbers on here too.

Pavilion lives next door to SIMMOSAYS, always give his number out for boilers

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[pearl]

Noticed a plumber arrive at flat below ours this morning. Popped down and the guy underneath us was having problems with his water so he turned the main stopcock off, for some reason this switched the cold water off in our kitchen too. The guy sorted it in about 30 seconds.
Thanks for all the advice folks, saved us a few sheckles.
Cheers
TC

but I thought it was just your kitchen tap that didn't work?

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

but I thought it was just your kitchen tap that didn't work?

Mr Clamp is replying on a different plumbing thread to the one he started

 

[pearl]

Mr Clamp is replying on a different plumbing thread to the one he started

bit weird though, downstairs water off turns his kitchen supply off, but not bathrm?

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

bit weird though, downstairs water off turns his kitchen supply off, but not bathrm?

Victorian Plumbing
After 46 years in the game I should pen a book about some of the things I've come across!

 

[The Clamp]

Victorian Plumbing
After 46 years in the game I should pen a book about some of the things I've come across!

Yep, place is like jigsaw puzzle!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Victorian Plumbing
After 46 years in the game I should pen a book about some of the things I've come across!

Bet you've never seen a sidecar in a loft.....

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Bet you've never seen a sidecar in a loft.....

I can beat that I think.
A bus engine in the lounge.
Shirley Street Hove in the mid seventies.
Floor covered in oil

 

[BN9 BHA]

I can beat that I think.
A bus engine in the lounge.
Shirley Street Hove in the mid seventies.

Did the bus crash into the house and leave the engine?