plumbing between street and stopcock

You do.

Contact your local water Co. some offer free replacement of a lead service pipe if you are also removing (have removed?) all the lead in the house.

Yes.

This is a Do It Yourself group... B-)

The water board are responsible from their stop tap in the pavement to your boundary wall. So you will have to pay to have the supply installed from there

From the property line the pipe is yours. Put a full bore valve inside your house. If you can get down the side of the house go to the rear. Install

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In message , ski writes

Not necessarily, Yorkshire Water have (or at least had) a scheme whereby if you replaced the pipe inside the house, they would replace the pipe outside, including through your garden.

I had the water board (severn trent) to do this as they have an obligation (not sure if it is a legal or a social one)to replace lead pipes with plastic. The are meant to do this to reduce leakage. They came out and replaced from the road to my house, (about 8m) and it cost £500. I took 2 blokes a morning to do it, so I think it was reasonable value. They also upgraded from my streek stopcock to the main pipe in the road as well for free. They did virtually no digging, they used a mechanical "mole" to burrow through.

I did notice that the flow rate into the house went up from 9 liters/min to 19 l/m, so that made it even better value!

Mike

Is that not a tad expensive?