Water meters

noxqs · 18-07-2011 12:27AM

If your pipes are at risk of freezing before minus 15 degrees, the construction job is done wrong. Simply put the pipes should be dug deep enough (its only 30 centimeters) that the ground never freezes and the entry point be insulated. What do you think people in Canada/Norway/Finland etc do? Run their water from november to march?

starbelgrade · 18-07-2011 12:28AM

noxqs wrote: »

If your pipes are at risk of freezing before minus 15 degrees, the construction job is done wrong. Simply put the pipes should be dug deep enough (its only 30 centimeters) that the ground never freezes and the entry point be insulated. What do you think people in Canada/Norway/Finland etc do? Run their water from november to march?

What do you want?

A prize for stating the bleedin' obvious?

Daegerty · 18-07-2011 12:32AM

Stinicker wrote: »

Well considering the former government made absolutely no attempts to enforce any type of building regulations

Ah but this is where you're wrong. The regulations were there alright but they weren't to protect people from leaks and bad construction

The only purpose they served and ever intended to serve was to make life hard for people wanting to do their own building work or to get started in construction. All the incumbent construction fellas were nicely protected during the tiger while the regulations helped prevent the influx of newcomers

Tis a bit like how you can buy a Grid Tie inverter to sell electricity back to the grid - you need a special one that complies to an Irish standard installed and commissioned by a registered installer (a refurbished scumbag after a FaS course & a jobs for the bois scheme). Then when its installed you have to adjust the minimum cut-out voltage, essentially making it not comply with the standard anymore but then you're allowed to collect your subsidy on your overpriced Irish inverter

galwayrush · 18-07-2011 12:34AM

noxqs wrote: »

If your pipes are at risk of freezing before minus 15 degrees, the construction job is done wrong. Simply put the pipes should be dug deep enough (its only 30 centimeters) that the ground never freezes and the entry point be insulated. What do you think people in Canada/Norway/Finland etc do? Run their water from november to march?

They can even keep their roads open in tempatures way colder than here, we can't even manage after a small snowfall,:pac::pac:
Our water supply freezes before it even gets to our house at -2, i expect the mains to be re-buried deep enough before they send me a water bill.

Cherrycola · 18-07-2011 12:39AM

Are there still people who believe these water charges are to help us conserve water?!

Its to raise money, some government idiot on Matt Cooper said exactly that a few weeks ago. While waffling on about how water is an expensive commodity, blah blah blah, he then drops into the conversation 'its like this Matt, the government need to raise money, so we have to introduce water charges!'

Its a tax, full stop! As someone else posted previously, if water conservation was so high on the agenda, why wasnt it dealt with 10 years ago?! Because they didnt need the money then, or the hassle involved with trying to fix leaks.

So now we are going to pay extra for the same ****ty service, and no improvements will be made to pipes, cos all the money raised will be going to the EU.

If they could charge us for air they would!

And those with their own wells wont escape either, they will be a flat rate applied on every household in the country, you'll see.

Just call a spade a spade, and stop trying to blind us with BS!

Suzie Sue · 18-07-2011 12:39AM

Daegerty wrote: »

The only purpose they served and ever intended to serve was to make life hard for people wanting to do their own building work or to get started in construction. All the incumbent construction fellas were nicely protected during the tiger while the regulations helped prevent the influx of newcomers

LOL - Well looky what just rode in LOL

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starbelgrade · 18-07-2011 12:48AM

Daegerty wrote: »

Ah but this is where you're wrong. The regulations were there alright but they weren't to protect people from leaks and bad construction

The only purpose they served and ever intended to serve was to make life hard for people wanting to do their own building work or to get started in construction.

I have to disagree there. Building Regulations were introduced to bring in minimum standards to which all building should comply.

The problem with a lot of buildings constructed in Ireland is that these minimum standards were not adhered to, not enforced, or both.

Building Control - the section with the authority to enforce Building Regs - is virtually non-existent in Ireland.

Daegerty · 18-07-2011 01:13AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I have to disagree there. Building Regulations were introduced to bring in minimum standards to which all building should comply.

The problem with a lot of buildings constructed in Ireland is that these minimum standards were not adhered to, not enforced, or both.

Building Control - the section with the authority to enforce Building Regs - is virtually non-existent in Ireland.

Why do you think they are non-existent? maybe because FF thought it would be good to let the developers do what they liked. They had to bring in the BER certs crap to appease the greens who were keeping them in power but most of that burden was loaded onto the consumer not the developers

Naikon · 18-07-2011 01:21AM

down with meters.

Water meters

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