Look what I got for Christmas!

[ToughButterCup]

A stop tap.

As you get older you take  more pleasure in the little things in life.

 

 

[joe90]

Was the water board helpfull?

[ToughButterCup]

United Utilities operations teams (the lads on the ground)  could not have been more helpful.

Every person arriving on  site looking at the design (detailed here) agreed that someone in the office did not provide a competent  design is  (one that takes into account the fact that stop tap packing glands fail occassionally)  

 

Another less charitable interpretation is that they do know how to design competently, but are deliberately not fitting stop valves. What is the likelihood of a Plasson Stop Valve packing gland failure? I mention that because the operator in the New Connections Team let slip that they were not fitting external stop valves nowadays: and immediately she said that, I could hear her biting her lip......

 

Alls well that ends well.

[joe90]

8 minutes ago, AnonymousBosch said:

let slip that they were not fitting external stop valves nowadays:

 

Not a good move IMO, I would always want a stop cock at the boundary so their pipe and yours could be separated.