Most water companies seem to want the meter at the stopcock on the boundary line. That way if the customer gets a leak on the incomer they can charge more.
Aren't they the company that tried to hand back all those assets that had crippling debts with them?
Is your reasoning that they will want to follow the pipework to be sure you haven't secretly split the supply under the ground with only part of it going through the meter? Otherwise you could simply provide a 'loop' in the pipe where they can conveniently insert a meter later.
Robert
Under hear.
No, my reasoning is that there is a single stop-c*ck at my property boundary, which feeds a supply pipe underneath my Victoria cobbled driveway, branches off into my building, continues into next door's yard, banches off into their building, continues into their next door's yard and goes into their building.
Where it enters my building it goes through a single meter, then splits into three to feed a) shop, b) flat A and c) flat C.
None of the three tenancies have access to the storeroom that the single meter is in. Once the floors and walls are repaired nobody - not even me - will have access to the pipework with removing said walls and floors - which are needed to prevent people falling through walls and floors.
In the flat I'm currently doing up, the pipe comes up out of the floor behind where the kitchen sink is going to go. It goes through a stop tap, and then a convenient two-foot length of straight pipe before terminating at a bucket tap and the boiler. It would be oh-so-ever-so useful if the meter was affixed to that nice straight bit of pipe //before// the kitchen units go in. Otherwise, the kitchen units will have to come back out again before there's any access to any pipework.
-- JGH
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