My terraced house has old common lead suppy. I've been told by the waterboard I need to upgrade, which means digging up my front garden and feeding the plastic pipe in and connecting to my cold feed. I can do all that, but I have solid floors how do I get the pipe through the foundation and up? from my garden?
2007-10-09 23:05:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
You dig! about 24" inside, then through the wall to outside, when the carrier pipe is in, fill up and leave the end open to push the water pipe through.
2007-10-09 23:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An angle grinder is used to cut a 2" slot in the floor to an appropriate connection point, 25 mm MDPE blue pipe is laid out to the street where it is connected. Pipe is covered in insulation and screeded over with sand and cement.. Some terrace houses have an alleyway, can you use this ?
2007-10-10 00:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by xenon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The regs state the pipe should be laid 500mm deep unless you add extra insulation, and you should have a single check no return valve before the stop tap, the water board will check this before they connect to your new supply pipe.
You will have to dig out a hole for the pipe through the concrete, unless you can find another way that complies with the regulations.
2007-10-10 12:27:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
unless you are prepared to have the pipe surface mounted then you have nochoice but to dig up floor and bury it under floor ..either way you will still need to dig a hole outside to connect to main ..dont forget you will need an earth next to stop tap in house
2007-10-10 00:29:01 · answer #4 · answered by boy boy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋