The House Projects Thread

[integrale_evo]

That seems rather excessive.

When our build was done we had the electricity supply going from the pole to a meter in a stand alone electricity cabinet.

Once complete we had it moved to a unit on the side of the building. We dug the trench to the required depth, our electrician had everything on the house side ready. From memory it was approx £1300 for ukpn to reroute the supply from the box into the new cabinet and move the meter.

[Gavster]

At this point I’m thinking of going back to the original “move it 1m for free” option. The meter is at head height just inside my front door, which is a narrow hallway. Tempted to shift it either up or down so it’s not crowding the space at shoulder height.

[jamcg]

Moving the electricity meter indicative estimate is £5,200 to £7,800

Sounds about right. 3rd party people can’t do anything with the mains, you’ll need them to do the downstream side though as the supplier won’t do it

Yes they fleece you for it, and that sounds somewhere about the same for gas relocation, ends up about 10-20k for both

[Gavster]

Moving the electricity meter indicative estimate is £5,200 to £7,800

Sounds about right. 3rd party people can’t do anything with the mains, you’ll need them to do the downstream side though as the supplier won’t do it

Yes they fleece you for it, and that sounds somewhere about the same for gas relocation, ends up about 10-20k for both

Okay, good to know that their estimate is about right, although it’s totally unreasonable in the context of the property value. Going back to seeing what they will do for free and getting more creative with the boxing in.

[jamcg]

With the gas and plumber could reposition it within the reach of the flexi anaconda (corrugated pipe from gas tap and meter) and alter pipework to suit, so might be worth playing with the radius of that to see if it helps, as that is pretty much your minimum cost option as the mains wouldn’t need to be moved

[Rich B]

i went into the garage last night and found it was raining in there… the bathroom tap/connectors was leaking (for maybe a few days). i traced it to where i thought it was (though i wasn’t 100% sure because there was a fair amount of water) and turned off the water for the night.

This morning, i’ve turned the water back on and now typically it isn’t leaking. so i tied some tissue around various parts of the pipework and left it to see if they got wet.

Then my missus called me upstairs to tell me that one of them was leaking from somewhere and some of the pieces of tissue were wet and she took them off and turned on the taps but she wasn’t sure which, it may have been the white pipe (both are white)…

she then got pissy when i asked her to leave it all alone, as i set it up again so i could pinpoint the exact location of the leak….

[Jobbo]

Is it plastic pipe Rich? I have found speedfit connectors pushed off by freezing rather than the pipe splitting. That should be pretty obvious though.

[Rich B]

Is it plastic pipe Rich? I have found speedfit connectors pushed off by freezing rather than the pipe splitting. That should be pretty obvious though.

its a mixture - the 22mm push fit connectors to the tapS are pushed onto copper pipes. it wouldn’t be frozen though, its inside (ish) and it may even be a hot pipe.

i think i’ll just replace the connectors and the taps - they’re old and shit. the whole bathroom needs doing properly to be honest, but we’ve just not got round to it + the only one who really uses the bath is my boy, and he doesn’t care about a swanky bathroom - it’s just covered in bath toys!

[Jobbo]

22mm - wish my house had been plumbed in that rather than 15mm

[Rich B]

22mm - wish my house had been plumbed in that rather than 15mm

not by the cowboy who did mine though!

[Mito Man]

Whenever I’ve had a water leak it’s been the push fit connectors. I don’t know if they have a service life and just need replacing every x years.
If I were to ever do a ground up replacement of the boiler and pipes I think I’d request all copper pipes unless there’s legislation which says you must have plastic in certain places.

[dinny_g]

I had a plumber over on Saturday to check out the vibration noises from the water system. He thinks it's very likely a badly fitted pipe somewhere and we've narrowed it down to 3 places so I'm systematically checking them over - I've already secured 4 different Pipe on Rafter places and it's improved somewhat. I've used the "clip over" plastic connectors.

I'm going to flush the system anyway as a precaution but I'm sure the issue is under the very badly fitted floor sheets on the landing

[V8Granite]

You can get some really cheap and nasty push fit connectors.

I’ve done everything in copper apart from 1 radiator which was done while I wasn’t here and it’s the only thing I’m worried about.

Dave!

[jamcg]

If you need to use plastic use John guest speedfit. Had problems with every other brand except speedfit

[Jobbo]

If you need to use plastic use John guest speedfit. Had problems with every other brand except speedfit

Even Speedfit relies on rubber O-rings for the seal, so they must have a lifespan which is way shorter than copper pipes and fittings?

Since all new builds seem to be fitted out entirely with plastic pipe and there are going to be joins hidden all over the place, I imagine they are a bit of a ticking time bomb. Of water.

[Ascender]

If you need to use plastic use John guest speedfit. Had problems with every other brand except speedfit

Even Speedfit relies on rubber O-rings for the seal, so they must have a lifespan which is way shorter than copper pipes and fittings?

Since all new builds seem to be fitted out entirely with plastic pipe and there are going to be joins hidden all over the place, I imagine they are a bit of a ticking time bomb. Of water and poop.

Fixed that for you based on recent experience.

[Rich B]

i couldn’t replicate the leak again, but since i’m home anyway today, i’ve replaced the crappy old taps and the connectors. fingers crossed that’ll solve it. there’s nothing “old” above where the leak was now, so i can’t see any other solutions.

[V8Granite]

In exciting house based plumbing news, we have now had our Water 2 filter fitted for 1 month.

https://water2.com/?tw_source=google&t ... KNEALw_wcB

The tap water from the sink is chlorine free and a 10 year old guest commented on how tasty our water was as his Nans water was yucky. It also passed a blind taste test with my own kids and the wife.

I got it as I don’t want to be continually see a Brita Water Filter sat on the side and I hate the taste of chlorine. Also the copper kettle we have needed de-scaling 4 times a year with regular tap
Water. After being spoilt by particularly lovely Manchester water many years ago I feel this is as close as I can get to it.

It does what it says on the tube.

[Ascender]

In exciting house based plumbing news, we have now had our Water 2 filter fitted for 1 month.

https://water2.com/?tw_source=google&t ... KNEALw_wcB

The tap water from the sink is chlorine free and a 10 year old guest commented on how tasty our water was as his Nans water was yucky. It also passed a blind taste test with my own kids and the wife.

I got it as I don’t want to be continually see a Brita Water Filter sat on the side and I hate the taste of chlorine. Also the copper kettle we have needed de-scaling 4 times a year with regular tap
Water. After being spoilt by particularly lovely Manchester water many years ago I feel this is as close as I can get to it.

It does what it says on the tube.

Thanks for this, will check it out. They've absolutely ruined the tap water up here with Chlorine, it tastes like ass now. We've also resorted to a separate jug with a filter in it to filter the water before putting it in the fridge dispenser as even the ice cubes coming out tasted foul.

[Jobbo]

I really like the taste of our water in Worcestershire. Always liked it more than other places I’ve lived (Oxon, London, Herts, Warks and Glos) so it is good to live here again.

There’s a built in Brita filter under our kitchen sink, with its own lever on the tap, and I’ve only ever used it a couple of times by accident. I was thinking of removing it to be honest.