This morning I got up to make a cup of tea and we had a very slow trickle of water at the kitchen cold tap. This was about 9am. The other half was up a lot earlier and said it was fine when she got up.
We looked for obvious things like leaks etc and then rang the water board. Initially they were little help so we went to our meter and discovered a leak before the meter. Now, the fun starts as the meter is about a mile up the hill from us across several farmers fields. Shortly after this, the trickle stopped.
Thinking we’d found the source of the problem as the leak at the meter, we phoned the water board again and they sent a helpful chap out who fixed the leak at the meter. But, we still had no water at all at the house!! The chap spent another hour or so checking the stop cock at the meter and the mains pressure. He even changed the stop cock at the meter and said there was definitely water there and good pressure so the problem must lie along the mile (I’m not exaggerating) of pipe from the meter or in our house. He said when listening at the meter pipe there was no sound of water moving at all along our line.
Has anyone got any ideas as I’m at a loss?
They are laying a gas line very near to our meter and I suspect this is not just a coincidence so will ring the gas engineers in the morning but if they’d done something I’d expect a leak (and therefore flow that could be heard). Is it possible for them to have crushed and sealed black alkathene pipe (as that’s what comes out of the meter)??
Ideas please?!?
We looked for obvious things like leaks etc and then rang the water board. Initially they were little help so we went to our meter and discovered a leak before the meter. Now, the fun starts as the meter is about a mile up the hill from us across several farmers fields. Shortly after this, the trickle stopped.
Thinking we’d found the source of the problem as the leak at the meter, we phoned the water board again and they sent a helpful chap out who fixed the leak at the meter. But, we still had no water at all at the house!! The chap spent another hour or so checking the stop cock at the meter and the mains pressure. He even changed the stop cock at the meter and said there was definitely water there and good pressure so the problem must lie along the mile (I’m not exaggerating) of pipe from the meter or in our house. He said when listening at the meter pipe there was no sound of water moving at all along our line.
Has anyone got any ideas as I’m at a loss?
They are laying a gas line very near to our meter and I suspect this is not just a coincidence so will ring the gas engineers in the morning but if they’d done something I’d expect a leak (and therefore flow that could be heard). Is it possible for them to have crushed and sealed black alkathene pipe (as that’s what comes out of the meter)??
Ideas please?!?