Old galvanised, lead, alkathene or copper water mains replaced with new WRAS-approved blue MDPE — usually completed inside a single working day, with no driveway dig.
If your incoming water pressure is poor, your bills have crept up, or you’ve had repeat leaks on the supply between the boundary and your stop tap, your main is likely on its way out. Lead, galvanised steel and alkathene mains all degrade in different ways — and once they go, they tend to go fast.
We find the existing stop tap, isolate the supply at the boundary, and plan the bore line through to your stop tap inside the property.
We open a small pit at each end — typically 600mm × 600mm. Block paving, gravel and tarmac in between are left untouched.
A pneumatic mole is fired underground from one pit to the other. The new MDPE pipe is connected and pulled back through the bore in one piece.
We jointer the new pipe at both ends, pressure test, flush, then backfill, reinstate the access pits and tidy up.
Most domestic jobs take 4–8 hours start to finish. We aim to have water back on the same day, before you go to bed.
Almost never. We work from your boundary stop tap inwards. Anything outside the boundary is normally the water company’s side.
25mm MDPE is the standard for domestic supplies. We can step up to 32mm or 50mm where flow demand or run length warrants it.
Yes — the MDPE pipe carries a 25-year design life from the manufacturer, and we warranty our installation work for 12 months.
Send a postcode and a couple of details — we’ll come back within the hour with a fixed price.
