My neighbour turned off our shared stopcock now we have trickle of water..?

[Dannyboyuk]

Hi all,

Happy Easter everyone,

Im new here and plumbers are expensive but here is my story.

I live in a shared maisonette, we have 1 pipe from the street stopcock on street and a blue thing next to it. comes through my ground floor, to a stopcock under my boiler, then up to my neighbours.

For some reason he he turned the stopcock off in the street, properly because our stopcocks are very tight, I cant even shift mine, looks like original pipe work with is half and inch lead pipes, property was built in 1920`s.

Our water pressure and flow was fine, only a bit poor if upstairs were using theres too.

since they have turned the stopcock on and off we have little water just a poor flow, not enough to light our boiler or heat shower etc...


we have had essex and suffolk water out and they done a text to show that the stopcock is working on the street and they are providing good flow past the boundary.

What could be the problem? could sediment have shifted and got stuck? they are experiencing the same problem upstairs too.

Im going to get my internal stopcock replaced but any thoughts or other remedy's? airlock?

thanks and regards,

Dan

 

[SafeGasInstall]

undo the front of your tap where you have filters and wash them down ! get plumber to change your internal stopcock as this is were you could have some dirt too.

 

[PlumbBobBob]

i agree sediment could have been shifted when turning the outside stopcock off and on. club together with your neighbour and get a plumber to change both internal stopcocks and investigate further if needed. if you put a request in the plumber wanted section giving your general location and there may be a member near to you who could come and do it for you.

 

[mountainman]

I don't think DannyBoy is going to get a plumber in mate, as he says in his post 'plumbers are expensive'.

 

[Puddle]

Is up stair water flow and presser back to what it was ?,what did they turn the water off for?

 

[Guest123]

Plumbers may seem expensive to you mate, but you're paying for our experience and being able to properly solve your problem. Asking about it on here is not the cheaper option as I doubt anyone can offer a real solution without actually seeing the job and investigating it fully.

Try phoning around and get 3 or so quotes, you may in fact be pleasantly surprised.

If I were you, I'd "bite the bullet" and get a pro in. Either that you could fluff around for long enough and still have no water to your property.

Why not post up your area location and ask one of the forum guys to pop round and have a look?

Best of luck with your problem and I hope that a permanent solution is found for you. Please let us all know how you get on.

 

[Dannyboyuk]

Yes will be getting a plumber in. Upstairs have the same poor water pressure.

What is this blue thing on the street next to the stopcock ?

 

[kay-jay]

Yes will be getting a plumber in. Upstairs have the same poor water pressure.

What is this blue thing on the street next to the stopcock ?

in my experience usually an empty bag of walkers cheese and onion. (other brands available)

or it could be the stop tap itself, some of the new ones are blue plastic handled jobbies

 

[M.Joshi]

What is this blue thing on the street next to the stopcock ?

Is it round with number dials on it? Could be a water meter. Can you take a picture of it and post it on here?

 

[Dannyboyuk]

We have a metre post our internal stop tap/cock. This could be an old meter?

Here is picture of the water mains on street:-


and our internal stopcock. I will get a plumber out but want other advice as well to get a varied range of responses.




Thank you all.

ps. our combi boiler does now not iginite so no hot water and our electric shower does not get hot.

As we ae the leaseholder of the property, if there is a problem with the pipe work PRE our internal stopcock, does this mean its the freeholders responsiblity?


thanks
Dan