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7th November 2020, 01:02 PM #1Intermediate Member
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meter repositioning advice from plumber
HI all,
WA watercorp are upgrading the mains water pipes in our suburb (Melville). They have informed households that if you want to relocate your meter to apply and it would be free as they will be doing work anyway.
We purchased an old home, demolished and as a result the home is now some +500cm higher on that side of the property. When it comes to now landscaping the meter will be literally a mile down so I want to make it easy for everyone.
So I have two questions:
meter design.pdf
1. Water corp said that before they do any work the plumber needs to first make the adjustments at the property end. how will they do that so that I can still have water until water corp do their bit.
2 After the repositioning then can I connect something to the then old outlet - such as a tap. (The old plumbers elbow)
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7th November 2020, 01:57 PM #2.
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500cm that's 5m or 16.5ft ?
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7th November 2020, 04:14 PM #3
could be
16 feet would also equate with the OP's "mile down" comment.
what I suggest is that the OP's plumber establish a new water inlet at the most appropriate level and once the WA Water Corp have done their bit and connected to the new "inlet" have the plumber blank off the original inlet with a suitable plug.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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7th November 2020, 06:07 PM #4Intermediate Member
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***** sorry meant 500mm (50 cm).
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7th November 2020, 06:23 PM #5.
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That's not very deep, My guess is they will just add an elbowed extension to bring the meter above the ground.
We had the opposite with the mains gas
ie landscaped and the mains gas line inside property to the gas meter ended up about level with the ground - should be 600mm below the ground.
1 Water corp said that before they do any work the plumber needs to first make the adjustments at the property end. how will they do that so that I can still have water until water corp do their bit.
Then call the water authority and they will bring the meter up to the right height.
After the repositioning then can I connect something to the then old outlet - such as a tap. (The old plumbers elbow)
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7th November 2020, 06:35 PM #6Intermediate Member
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Thanks
So: The plumber would unscrew unscrew this part (A) add the riser to that, then add an appropriate joiner to the top end where the new level would be.
Then when the water corp come, they will remove it from (B) attach it to the new height. I would assume then they would close B off.
Can I then run a pipe out of the vacant (B) for a tap.
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7th November 2020, 07:55 PM #7.
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My guess is that the plumber will completely remove A/B and replace that will an upward facing elbow and temporarily connect a short length of pipe to that that comes out at the new ground level.
Then the WA will remove old meter/elbow and short length of pipe and replace that with the new meter.
You can always ask your plumber to add a female threaded T piece on your side of the new meter for another tap.
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