Water pipe - Water pipe

[craigdonaghy]

hi all i am looking for advice i want to run a water pipe into my garage which is detached from my house i have located the stop cock infront of my driveway.

can i dig down just in side of my driveway and locate the pipe and add a t piece on and run a length of pipe to the garage or is there more to it than that ? do you have to contact the local water company or is it nothing to do with them as it is in your property ?

[Mikey_C]

IMHO you can do what you like after the meter/stopcock in the road, as the water board would charge you to repair it after that. If it is the "newish" blue MDPE pipe, push fit fittings are available (I have experience of manufacturer Talbot) which I recently used with great success. Having observed builders previously doing it I put grey foam pipe insulation around the pipe, when burying it helps against frost, especially if not buried the required 900mm but it also reduces damage from sharp stones etc.

Best of luck tell us how it goes

Mikey C

[Stuarty]

When ive put water pipes in, i never go out into the public footpaths etc. Only tamper with whats in your boundry. I lay the pipe on a couple inches of sharp sand, and bury it under about 6 - 8 inches of sand. It not only protects the pipe from sharp stones when backfilling, but alerts anybody who just so happens to be digging there in the future.

[Tony McC]

You can get marker tape to lay on the 200mm or so of sand used to overlie the new pipe.

Most important, the pipe should be min 750mm deep for frost protection. (Used to be 900mm but with global warming and early finishes on Fridays it's now only 750mm)

[bjorn]

Insulation that can get wet should be waterproofed. Wet lagging is worse than no laggng!