Leaky pipe: who's responsibility!?

is it like gas where everything at there side of the meter(stop ****) is the gas(water) boards and everything your side is yours ?
 
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Indeed is harsh. I like the idea that the casual home owner is able to maintain their supply pipes. How many of you dig up your drives once a year to do casual maintance on your pipes??

Does seem to be our responsibility...not sure about home insurance is going to cover it, they seem to be playing silly buggers with it.

Nice early christmas present this is then!
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Dont think home insurance will cover it, but worth a check.

When i rented a house in wakefield, the cellar flooded due to a burst pipe. The landlord had to repair it, the water board quoted £4k to fix it and a waiting time of about a week (us without water too!). Landlord turned up a couple of hours later with a few mates and a mini-jcb and fixed it himself with about 6hrs of work. Mind you he was a bit of a builder/house repairer in his spare time.
 
2 grand :eek: I'd get a second opinion if I where you. We were in exactly the same situation a couple of months back the pipe had burst on our property so we were liable for the repairs. Well I say we, theres 1 pipe that feeds 6 houses so technically it was all of our problem but as you can imagine getting any kind of money out of people is near on impossible. Luckily next door is a plumber so we paid for the materials (all of 50 quid for the connectors and pipe and what not) and he repaired it. Job done in an afternoon most of that was spent digging the hole, about 2 foot down and 10 foot long, and removing the path which just our luck the pipe run under.
 
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As said, sadly the service pipe is your responsibility if it's on your property :( Can get the other half who deals with this kind of thing more a shout if you want more info.

In our area you can't just leave it, you'd get as leak enforcement notice sent through.
 
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It's your responsibility.

We replaced ours recently (to remove iron + install plastic) - did all the digging work ourselves & just paid for the connection to be made. £100 as opposed to £2k.

Get your shovel/kango out. :)
 
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