Getting mains water

[OldVicarageEnterprisesLTD]

Hi have any of you experience getting mains supply installed? Cost process ect. We are looking at a sight with questionable hgv Acess and zero facilities. It all grass at the moment cut for hay and silage.

 

[Kidds]

Simple enough process but does entail dealing with idiots on a level of idiocy that you are unlikely to have encountered before.
It will take quite a few phonecalls and every one will be as if it is the first time you have spoken to them and they will use the phrase "that should already be on your file but we can't seem to find your file".
You will get there eventually but it will take months.

 

[OldVicarageEnterprisesLTD]

Ho joy sound like NHS and adult social care any ideas of the sort of costs, as I may have been left this sight in a former employers will odd i know hut after the Los of our the land last year though probate im very cautious. This place has nothing but grass and the only way i can see getting any value out of it will require a water supply um on my own this time no financial backer and will have to secure a loan ect against the land for start up capital.

 

[Flatlander]

Drill a well and have a solar pump.

 

[OldVicarageEnterprisesLTD]

Thanks but that might not be possible it would come down to budget i can't afford to mortgage my self to the eyeballs.

 

[Cowmansam]

Borehole will probably work out cheaper in the end

 

[Steevo]

Do you know where the nearest main is?

Process is to find local water company, fill in form for new connection, pay fee £150 or so. They do desktop survey, come out and meet you and show you where the main is. If it’s on or in road it’s not so bad, if it’s a way away it’ll be trickier and more expensive.

They’ll then draw up a quote for you.

You’ll then need (a contractor) to install all pipework your end terminating at the boundary of your property which the water company will then connect to.

Once that’s done you pay the fee to the water company who then come out and inspect your pipework and then arrange for their guys to come out and finish it all off.

 

[OldVicarageEnterprisesLTD]

Do you know where the nearest main is?

Process is to find local water company, fill in form for new connection, pay fee £150 or so. They do desktop survey, come out and meet you and show you where the main is. If it’s on or in road it’s not so bad, if it’s a way away it’ll be trickier and more expensive.

They’ll then draw up a quote for you.

You’ll then need (a contractor) to install all pipework your end terminating at the boundary of your property which the water company will then connect to.

Once that’s done you pay the fee to the water company who then come out and inspect your pipework and then arrange for their guys to come out and finish it all off.

Thanks a lot for the info
i have found it will be Theams Water but from where I have no idea.
the plan i have is find best Acess point for hgv lay hardcore pad about 20m x30 next to this and get a protaloo shipping container office and shed placed on the pad. So the water just needs to be a stand pipe/tap close by so I can refill container for drinking water and fill bowser for water troughs. Wind solar and a generator for power as only needed for eclectic fencing and when we are on sight. Not planning on our own livestock in the short term. So things just need to set up for delivery's, contractors ect. I definitely see the merit in a bore hole long term.

 

[Steevo]

I think you might struggle to get planning permission for all of that lot on a greenfield site…..!

 

[simon-0116]

Or they come out to a gated site but don't actually come in to look at existing water main which your enquiry about. And yes they've been, done survey and can quote. Must have xray vision. Reason being - covid

 

[OldVicarageEnterprisesLTD]

I think you might struggle to get planning permission for all of that lot on a greenfield site…..!

The only permanent structure is the stand pipe and hard core...

 

[Steevo]

Hardcore pad would not be easy alone.

Shipping container office would need planning, as quite likely would the shed, depending what you mean by that.

It doesn’t matter if the structures are permanent or not.

 

[teslacoils]

It's very simple. Your local water company will have a form to fill in. Getting it from where they have the main, to where you want water is the trick. But if you've just been given 600ac of debt free land, the cost of a pipe isn't going to kill the project. I'd suggest taking a breath, and deciding where you actually want the water to end up supplying. Then take it from there. The actual water connection for me was not dear - the piping, valves, chambers, trenching 2km was.

 

[Flatlander]

If your only going to be filling your own drinking water and a bowser for animals I’m fecked if I’d be paying any water company and instal contractor to pipe water in until everything is up and running. Nit sure where you are but here in cattle country a dugout is the main water source. Basically a large pond in a low spot where the water table is easy to access. Cattle drink there and bowsers can be filled with a petrol pump. Go by bottled water fir yourself. Extra inconvenience but if cash is limited I’d wat you have to.

 

[simon-0116]

Been quoted £3500 for un metered new supply. 3m trench across a road, so full road closure needed. To a stop tap on our property then we can do rest.

 

[teslacoils]

Didn't realise you could get an unmetered supply nowerdays.....

I got a 50mm connection with a road closure for £1600. But have a meter. Price was the same for 50mm as 32mm.

 

[simon-0116]

Didn't realise you could get an unmetered supply nowerdays.....

I got a 50mm connection with a road closure for £1600. But have a meter. Price was the same for 50mm as 32mm.

I didn't, that's what quote says . Might ask about metered