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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #15 on: 09 January 2010, 12:02:28 »
It's Saturday FFS why worry about water when you can have beer  :y
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« Reply #16 on: 09 January 2010, 12:46:14 »
Ours is under the sink
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #17 on: 09 January 2010, 13:40:56 »
This is all a bit worrying.  TBs house (from the pictures on another thread) looks to be reasonably modern - 10-15 years old - same vintage as mine.  All these houses are supposed to meet a very high standard of insulation. 

We're not supposed to get frozen pipes.

I filled in a lacal authority home insulation survey a few years ago.  The recommendations were to put another 2 inches of insulating material in the loft, which would save me the princely sum of £10 per year.  :) >:( :) :(
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« Reply #18 on: 09 January 2010, 13:58:38 »
Ressurect Sammy ! wont solve the problem but you know you will feel better. :y :D ;D ;D
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #19 on: 09 January 2010, 14:46:35 »
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Time to tell the water company to sort it or you'll rip the thing out ::) ::)

Water company wont touch it if its on your property, they will only remove any blockages to the mains supply......

Aglian Water - if you have this particular type of meter - look after everything right up to meter.
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« Reply #20 on: 09 January 2010, 14:48:06 »
It must be enough to turn you towards the drink TB! ;D ;D ;D ;)

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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #21 on: 09 January 2010, 14:48:23 »
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This is all a bit worrying.  TBs house (from the pictures on another thread) looks to be reasonably modern - 10-15 years old - same vintage as mine.  All these houses are supposed to meet a very high standard of insulation. 

We're not supposed to get frozen pipes.

I filled in a lacal authority home insulation survey a few years ago.  The recommendations were to put another 2 inches of insulating material in the loft, which would save me the princely sum of £10 per year.  :) >:( :) :(
Built Feb 2001.

One other person in the street had similar problem.

In my case, I think it may be due to the wind blowing a bit of a drift up against it  :-/
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #22 on: 09 January 2010, 14:50:31 »
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You only need some insulation on the inspection door and around the meter.
Thery is a load of polystyrene around meter, but with a cutout so they can read it.  Worth bunging a handful of loft insulation in this 3" cutout?
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« Reply #23 on: 09 January 2010, 16:52:53 »
It is more than likely an Elster water meter - I was a consultant for them not so long ago - they used to make all these meters in Luton but it has all been outsourced to Slovakia now - They had lots of problems with the chambers in the water meters on some variants as they have tried to eliminate any mettalic moving parts - there is also a vary small filtering device within this plastic chamber that is designed to filter out grit etc, if partly frozen water is clogging this then the brass housing will not heat up sufficiently to melt it .

Even if it isnt an Elster meter they will all have fairly similiar internals.

I would keep on trying to heat the pipes and insulate the meter as that will help but you should report it to the water board as it sounds like the water is freezing before it gets to the meter.

Hope that helps

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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #24 on: 09 January 2010, 17:06:45 »
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You only need some insulation on the inspection door and around the meter.
Thery is a load of polystyrene around meter, but with a cutout so they can read it.  Worth bunging a handful of loft insulation in this 3" cutout?

Absolutley, and/or some high density foam insulation on the inspection door
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #25 on: 09 January 2010, 18:35:44 »
Another Q - this is pic from inside house of back of meter (as seen through a cutout in back of kitchen cupboard)




Should those pipes be insulated?  I guess not, as technically they are inside the house?
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #26 on: 09 January 2010, 18:37:06 »
BTW, the black lever is my stopcock.  Anglian water apparently maintain up to that point, plus the meter.
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« Reply #27 on: 09 January 2010, 18:40:48 »
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BTW, the black lever is my stopcock.  Anglian water apparently maintain up to that point, plus the meter.

`Plumber must`ve had loads of surplus solder to use up! ::)

Had they been 'Yorkshire' fittings, they`d have been so tight they wouldn`t need soldering! ;D
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #28 on: 09 January 2010, 18:42:26 »
The internal pipes should be fine, I would be pointing up around that cubicle though!
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Re: No water AGAIN
« Reply #29 on: 09 January 2010, 18:49:45 »
IMHO insulating the front side of it is the best bet. That's where the problem is coming from. Is there any way you could get a little heat into the cabinet - low wattage bulb or something? Guessing the water authority wouldn't be too happy if they found out though.  :-/

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