Removimg concrete from mdpe pipe

[Gareth J]

Another low investment thing to do would be to install a meter at the house end. Do monthly meter reads on both ends of the line and you'll know if there is a leak relatively quickly.

If you did that and put in a 200+l pressure vessel/accumulator at the same time, you might run for decades without needing any extra investment.

If you found mains pressure was a bit low, you could also add a booster pump to boost your pressure vessel up to better pressures.

Is the pipe all your responsobility or is some of it the water company? Seems a long run for a domestic supply. Id have thought a 50mm pipe would be the way to go, if bothering to replace it. Folk use a lot more water now than back in the old days.

Last figure I heard for a bore hole was 12k, some of our neighbours put one in as the spring that used to supply a house and a cottage isn't man enough for the extra propertie they now have and higher water consumption.

I feel 50mm is overkill and a big step up in terms of cost, fitting cost and difficulty to work with. @reb78 could use an online calculator to confirm. Chances are the meter and pipework before it is only around 25mm anyway.

 

[Turbo]

Easy enough to test for leaks. Shut off all stopcocks at the house/farm and look to see if the numbers on the meter are moving. Some meters have a spinny wheel you can watch.

 

[reb78]

Easy enough to test for leaks. Shut off all stopcocks at the house/farm and look to see if the numbers on the meter are moving. Some meters have a spinny wheel you can watch.

Easy enough to check. Bloody difficult to find them, especially the weepers that show no obvious wet patches.

 

[Turbo]

Easy enough to check. Bloody difficult to find them, especially the weepers that show no obvious wet patches.

Been there done that. When you have lots of pipes running under fields to several cattle drinkers it's not easy to keep track of leaks.

A few years ago we put stop valves on all the branches of the water lines making it easier to trace leaks and isolate any line until it is repaired without affecting any else.

We now switch off all the branches off apart from the house supply once the cattle are off the land in the autumn. One winter a drinker started leaking and wasn't discovered until the huge water bill landed.