What Gary did.

With all the excitement of Thames Water on Monday I realised that I never explained what Gary did inside the House  and  garage, to prepare for the switch over from the old main to the new one.

Here you see the Stopcock that the external
Plumber fitted -  you see the new mains water pipe disapearing into the newly laid concrete, this pipe then goes into the 600mm deep trench that runs from the house to the road. Once connected the mains water will come in here and then be piped to the rest of the house. To change over to the new supply I first have to somehow drain off any soil/sand/grit  that might contaminated the pipe while it was being fitted and then switch the supply from the old pipe (that will now be  disconnected ) to the new one.

Thanks to Gary I will be able to do that.

These are the steps:

First turn off the old supply inside the house.
Second get Thames  Water to conect the new pipe.

Third make sure the  isolating valve is set to off and then fix a hose to the drain on the stop cock.

Turn on the mains in the street
Fix then feed the temporary hose out the door to a drain and then turn on
Leave for 10-15 mins to ensure all grit sand dirt is flushed away
Turn off stopcock.
Remove hose and then close hose valve.
Open Stopcock check that drain valve is shut ,
Then finally open isolating valve alowing water from new mains into house via the tempoary hose
running from the garage into the House

Tommorrow I plan to get my fix date from Thames Water will let you know how I got on.