[lee_dewing]

Hi everyone.

I live in a small place back to back house no garden.

I have a garage about 30 metres from my place 4 joined garages in block 1 is mine; up and over style.

Basically i am going to write to the property manager as i'm lease hold to see if they will give me permission to have a tap fitted into my garage.

My ro-setup is at my parents and has been for 8 years they are not on a water metre.

But thinking it's better for me to have setup 5 second walk from my place than 6 miles away.


Has anyone on here done something similiar had tap and metre installed to an outbuilding?

Who do you speak to at thames water?

Any idea of cost?

Also how much would it cost me a week for my water i use about 1000 litres pure a week?
Happy for near guesses or what it would be on your tariff.

also wondering about the waste water? i have a channel that runs acroos the floor outside garage.
Storm drain; you know grating stuff, would that be allowed for the RO-waste water.


Have to get approval of property manager; should i be honest and tell him it's for business?
Or say something else? don't know what

All pie in the sky at the mo need to contact above then onto thames water next.

Unfortunately looking to move to a bigger house is a non starter at mo mrs out of work and i'm not rolling in money

Any thoughts thanks
lee

[alfie11]

Having a guess your communal spaces might be owned by a freeholder so you would need their permission, unlikely to be given imo.However if you did get it , If running an underground water supply and reinstatement of of paving/tarmac etc would make it cost prohibitive.I would stay at me mums

[bobplum]

is there water supply to the garage
if not.......very expensive

[Clever Forum Name]

I looked at moving, and water production was top of the list.

To install an underground pipe and all the other works/costs. It came in at around 18,000 £ No wonder the water board is making a killing.

Something like £4500 was allocated to traffic management  lol

[dave0123]

couldn't you use the rain water off the garage roof's? collect the water?

[lee_dewing]

Ok.
I'll go through the motions but doesn't look great.

I can't see as its worth rain water harversting.
To me that acts as a top up.
Maybe with all this rain at the moment it would be enough as not getting out to work as
Much as I want.

But come spring summer wouldn't be enough

[dannymack]

Don't ask erm just do it if anyone finds out play dum !!! 👳👳👳👍

[dave0123]

Ok.
I'll go through the motions but doesn't look great.

I can't see as its worth rain water harversting.
To me that acts as a top up.
Maybe with all this rain at the moment it would be enough as not getting out to work as
Much as I want.

But come spring summer wouldn't be enough Huh

No probably would't be enough in the summer months but may mean less time traveling 5 miles away to your parents. I imagine a lot of rain will come off a block of garage roof's though.

[PoleKing]

Seeing as its the warmest winter in memory.
Is it an option to just run a hose from your house to your garage?
Lag it, you'll be ok down to -a few degrees...
Another month or so and you'll get (probably) 9 months clear to deal with landlord and getting a tap fitted...
Let your neighbours know, could irk a treat.

[Smurf]

This might seem a daft idea but don't you have the room by your front door area to box in a static holding tank system and get a water supply to that instead?

[richard groves]

This might seem a daft idea but don't you have the room by your front door area to box in a static holding tank system and get a water supply to that instead?

+1
Lee, if you could get water to the garage are you planning on having a static system, what about power for a booster pump or transfer pump ?
do you park van in garage or out front of your house ?

I'm asking because my situation is I live in a first floor flat and am street parked.
I still manage, I had to invest though.
I have a 4040 wall mounted inside my hallway (above head height), waste hose goes out to drain breather pipe at back of flat, pure goes under floor boards and out my window zip tied to drain pipe with a hose lock tap by front door !
When I need to fill up I have to try and get parked as close as I can and run a reel of hose from there to the van but I will fill a 600 l tank in 3 hours which will last me 2 days on average.
Point is, you can problem solve most things, you just have to think outside the box sometimes.  

p.s.
I'd also add that had my relatives been happy to have helped me I would probably have taken that option but I too would have had to drive about 7 miles to fill up.
Are your parents on a water meter ? are you ?
I guess you have to weigh up the costs, fuel vs water costs and equipment set up at yours. In the long run you maybe better as you are at the moment and at least the fuel costs are tax deductable and already factored in to your pricing.

[lee_dewing]

Pole king: no i can't run hose from my house to garage.

I live in a back to back house (looks like small terraced house from front and has no back)

If i ran a hose it would have to be outside kitchen window along a footpath outside my neighbours house and then across a carpark.

Not meaning to sound sarcastic i will put a photo on here tomorrow evening

Gordon bennet.

Yes static tank in garage.

Good point about submersible pump, ashamed to say never thought of that NO ELECTRIC IN GARAGE

But i could fit a tap at base of static tank surely the weight of the water would create good flow rate to fill barrels?

As for booster pump i have never used one at my parents and produce 35 litres per hour.


The idea for a tank outside the front door may work.

I have no front garden as such but there is a small patch under my kitchen window that could accomadate a small tank.
So maybe if i had an outside tap installed under kitchen window i could fill a tank and i have an electric point
in an outside broom cupboard this is where our tumble dryer is and some toot

So could power submersible pump.
waste Ro-could plumb into down pipe which runs into the ground and has man made manhole.

All good fun this.
My Ro is ok at parents but worried as they may decide to move once my mum retires next year.

So good to work out the what if's.

Thanks everyone for your input will put some pics on here tomorrow or wednesday to show what my place is like.

Lee