My neighbour turned off our shared stopcock now we have trickle of water..?

[Dannyboyuk]

Hi all,

Happy Easter everyone,

Im new here and plumbers are expensive but here is my story.

I live in a shared maisonette, we have 1 pipe from the street stopcock on street and a blue thing next to it. comes through my ground floor, to a stopcock under my boiler, then up to my neighbours.

For some reason he he turned the stopcock off in the street, properly because our stopcocks are very tight, I cant even shift mine, looks like original pipe work with is half and inch lead pipes, property was built in 1920`s.

Our water pressure and flow was fine, only a bit poor if upstairs were using theres too.

since they have turned the stopcock on and off we have little water just a poor flow, not enough to light our boiler or heat shower etc...


we have had essex and suffolk water out and they done a text to show that the stopcock is working on the street and they are providing good flow past the boundary.

What could be the problem? could sediment have shifted and got stuck? they are experiencing the same problem upstairs too.

Im going to get my internal stopcock replaced but any thoughts or other remedy's? airlock?

thanks and regards,

Dan

 

[Dannyboyuk]

Hi all,

Here is an update just wanted to run it past you all.

The problem has been confirmed it is inbetween the boundary and our internal stopcocks.

We are going to run 25ml polypipe from the street under our front garden and into our neighbours up their corridor into their loft, will then come down into their kitchen and split of to ours .


My question is do you think there will be enough pressure to push the water from the street up 2 stories?

The pressure from the street looks very good. We are mainly suffering from old lead half an inch 80 year old lead pipes which have poor flow due to a blockage, the pressure is fine though.

 

[PlumbBobBob]

pressure should be fine to do this. after all you need mains pressure to feed water cisterns in the loft which is often two stories up