Andehh Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago (edited) Where our external stop cock is, we want to put a bike shed, a 7ft by 7ft sized one. I'll build it off a wooden deck, and have the shed over the stop cock housing, then cut a hole through the floor so you can access it from inside the shed. It got me thinking though, the stop cock itself is about 2 ft down a 10-15" wide plastic tube, brass valve on blue pipe. It sits very very near the edge of our driveway, and a small bin store we have off the driveway. When they fit a water meter, will they need to excavate out the area, or can they do it all from inside the plastic tube? How do they shut off the water flow, to the stopcock itself? We built on a knock down of a 1970s property, so the builder/water company will have reused the water supply inbound. Edited 10 hours ago by Andehh
Alan Ambrose Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago Suggest best course of action is to contact your water supplier and get the meter installed somewhere on the pipe where it’s not going to bother you. I don’t think having the stopcock or meter under your shed is going to work. They will generally read the meter without liaising with you and need access at any time. The meter will be a combined meter and stopcock assembly in a similar chamber to the one you have. I can’t imagine they can swap it without digging it up.
Andehh Posted 6 hours ago Author Posted 6 hours ago We don't have a meter currently, only a manual stop cock isolation valve!
Alan Ambrose Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago This is not complicated - suggest you need to get the water provider to move their stopcock - they may very well install a meter while they're about it.
Conor Posted 26 minutes ago Posted 26 minutes ago (edited) The SC, if it is the main one the supply, is the property of the water company and the point at which ownership normally changes. It's usually on the public side, close to the boundary. I'm not sure if the one your are describing is the main one, or how your supply is routed. Either way, make sure this one is accessible, if a meter were ever to be installed, it would be installed somewhere more accessible, in the public domain. Fyi a new meter is install is usually a small excavation, squeeze off of the existing supply, a new meter box, and a metre or so of new pipe, coupled to the existing pipe either side. Edited 14 minutes ago by Conor
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