Water pipe under road

[organicguy]

Need to replace our private supply under a B road. Cannot mole as there is a medium pressure gas main in the middle of the road.
Can any one recommend a company to dig up the road. SN6 area ideally or a national company with local depots.
I am sure there are plenty with Irish names but I'd like one who won't cock it up!

TIA
OG

 

[betweenthelines]

Why not do it yourself?

 

[upnortheast]

Why not do it yourself?

Don`t you need the proper "tickets" to work on the highway

What size & type of pipe is the existing.

We once connected an alky pipe to an old metal one. Attached the tractor to the other end of the metal pipe & pulled . 10 minutes , job done

 

[Henarar]

Need to replace our private supply under a B road. Cannot mole as there is a medium pressure gas main in the middle of the road.
Can any one recommend a company to dig up the road. SN6 area ideally or a national company with local depots.
I am sure there are plenty with Irish names but I'd like one who won't cock it up!

TIA
OG

the gas should be 4 ft cover so just push a pipe under the road and above the gas above with the digger

 

[neilo]

Mole it at night, and be ready to clear off and deny knowledge if you hear a hiss?

 

[le bon paysan]

Don`t you need the proper "tickets" to work on the highway

What size & type of pipe is the existing.

We once connected an alky pipe to an old metal one. Attached the tractor to the other end of the metal pipe & pulled . 10 minutes , job done

Maybe feed some high tensile through the metal pipe first. If the pipe breaks you can drag bigger cable through until you can attach the alkathene.

 

[David1968]

How big is the pipe that's already there? You might be able to shove an alkathene pipe down the inside of it.

 

[Exfarmer]

Don`t you need the proper "tickets" to work on the highway

What size & type of pipe is the existing.

We once connected an alky pipe to an old metal one. Attached the tractor to the other end of the metal pipe & pulled . 10 minutes , job done

Certainly worth a try, you will need licence to dig road, lights etc, looking at several K.

How big is the pipe that's already there? You might be able to shove an alkathene pipe down the inside of it.

again another option. Pipe would need a chamfer passed down first to remove old sediment

 

[Kevtherev]

Mole it at night, and be ready to clear off and deny knowledge if you hear a hiss?

The fines for digging near gas without permission will be eye watering

 

[Henarar]

How big is the pipe that's already there? You might be able to shove an alkathene pipe down the inside of it.

May be way out on this but I seem to remember from when the water board was here doing a new main that you can get a mole that will follow an old pipe and bust it to put a new one in

 

[Henarar]

The fines for digging near gas without permission will be eye watering

hap out the road caught a big gas main [didn't hurt it though] while ditching and didn't get in any trouble as the main wasn't as deep as it should be

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

the gas should be 4 ft cover so just push a pipe under the road and above the gas above with the digger

May be way out on this but I seem to remember from when the water board was here doing a new main that you can get a mole that will follow an old pipe and bust it to put a new one in

Glad you say "should" be 4 ft doesn't mean it is. Plenty have found pipes that shouldn't be there.
Also remember hearing about busting an old pipe and replacing with new.
Aren't there any civil engineering boys around with the kit who would do the job for notes one weekend?

 

[neilo]

The fines for digging near gas without permission will be eye watering

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

What's the old pipe, metal ?

 

[Yale]

Surely the guys of the travelling caravan brigade could do it,they’d even have a spare bit of tarmac to reinstate.

 

[Henarar]

Glad you say "should" be 4 ft doesn't mean it is. Plenty have found pipes that shouldn't be there.
Also remember hearing about busting an old pipe and replacing with new.
Aren't there any civil engineering boys around with the kit who would do the job for notes one weekend?

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[solo]

It would be worth speaking to this company who specialise in underground pipes and boreholes. I had a couple of ducts put in under a private road this autumn.

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[nick...]

I’ve known of scaffold pipes pushed under roads to put water mains through.not as big as job as you would think with a digger
nick…

 

[Exfarmer]

I’ve known of scaffold pipes pushed under roads to put water mains through.not as big as job as you would think with a digger
nick…

In this case could come with a fre gas connection, win win