Anyone work for the water board? Southern Water preferrably...

[Toby]

Let us know mate! Could always rerout it,

If only u didn't live on a island 

[dTEA]

There responsible up until the boundary, after that up until it is in your house is your responsibility

What's pipe made off??

Not sways the case as waste on an open sewer shared by neighbours along a run of houses built before sometime in the 30s can be responsibility of the water board as was the case for me. Friend told me the act change to make it easy to get a response. Also hot a replacement iron for the inspection joke from them. Always worth pursuing or asking. 

[Toby]

Sewage is a differnt ketal of fish. Hang tight

[Guy]

as this layman understands it.. you are responsible for everything up to your water meter

doesn't help that my water meter was leaking, reported, but I still got a £1300 bill.. they said they were sending through a revised bill, but that was over a month ago and so far.. nothing!

[cullygti]

its a long shot but is there a stop cock in the neighbours for it could be that they have control for the 2 properties

[justalex81]

its a long shot but is there a stop cock in the neighbours for it could be that they have control for the 2 properties

yes very possible

[Diamond Hell]

When I struck a pipe in my back garden a few years back I called their emergency leak line, who sent someone, who came pretty much straight away.  They eventually found the stopcock and shut it off.  That took out six houses.  There was no quibbling, they replaced the pipe and put in an outside stopcock on my house. 

Have your wife and kids about you and a 12' fountain of water next to you - seems to clear away any issues pretty fast, especially if your neighbours come out and start berating the blokes who're on call-out because they don't have any water. 

[rob.043]

If you end up replacing it, have a go at getting it to more like 400mm below ground level to ensure a bit of frost protection.

[mustard]

There responsible up until the boundary, after that up until it is in your house is your responsibility

What's pipe made off??

Not sways the case as waste on an open sewer shared by neighbours along a run of houses built before sometime in the 30s can be responsibility of the water board as was the case for me. Friend told me the act change to make it easy to get a response. Also hot a replacement iron for the inspection joke from them. Always worth pursuing or asking. 

Our house was built in 1894 and has a shared water supply and a shared waste. The waste is the responsibility of the Local Authroity (although they engage Thames to fix it). The supply pipe only has a stopcock in the road and in each house. Southern told me that they are responsible for the pipe in that case. Not sure I believe them, but would be helpful to find out definitely.

[simonpolly]

When they resurface the pavements the contractors have a habit of tarmacing over the access to the stop valve in the pavement,call out your local water board and ask them to find your stop valve.