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Hello!
Hoping someone might be able to get us out of the circles we're going round in! We are currently undertaking a side return extension to our Victorian end of terrace. Ground floor kitchen and bathroom. We've discovered that we have a shared water supply with our neighbours - our internal stopcock also controls their water. Both houses are fed through a 15mm lead pipe which comes through our kitchen, then splits after this and supplies our bathroom and next door's house. We plan to install a combi boiler off the mains supply for our water and heating - the old water tank in the loft and separate water heater in the bathroom are now long gone.
Basically, we are trying to understand whether our combi-boiler plans will work with this joint supply? Our builder has suggested we could get a new, larger pipe connected to the Thames Water stopcock outside our house. This new pipe would still feed both houses. New mains supply is cost prohibitive as the mains run on the opposite pavement...road closure...parking restrictions...too expensive.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Is our builders suggestion the correct/best solution?
Thanks,
Liz
Hoping someone might be able to get us out of the circles we're going round in! We are currently undertaking a side return extension to our Victorian end of terrace. Ground floor kitchen and bathroom. We've discovered that we have a shared water supply with our neighbours - our internal stopcock also controls their water. Both houses are fed through a 15mm lead pipe which comes through our kitchen, then splits after this and supplies our bathroom and next door's house. We plan to install a combi boiler off the mains supply for our water and heating - the old water tank in the loft and separate water heater in the bathroom are now long gone.
Basically, we are trying to understand whether our combi-boiler plans will work with this joint supply? Our builder has suggested we could get a new, larger pipe connected to the Thames Water stopcock outside our house. This new pipe would still feed both houses. New mains supply is cost prohibitive as the mains run on the opposite pavement...road closure...parking restrictions...too expensive.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Is our builders suggestion the correct/best solution?
Thanks,
Liz