How to bring drinking water to a private house from a nearby central water main

Water is the first thing a person needs for normal living conditions. In high-rise buildings, special services take care of the supply of water to housing even during construction, but in order to conduct water to private property, you will have to work hard yourself. After all, living in a house without water is very inconvenient. How to connect to the central water supply passing near the site? Where to begin? Where to apply and what work is required for this? You can read about everything about it and watch a detailed video.

Benefits of connecting to a centralized water supply

1. Low costs for organizing a constant supply of water to the house - you do not need to take care of the delivery of water every day, for example, bring it from a well or an open source, order delivery on special machines or install additional equipment in the house.
2. The presence of a constant pressure in the water supply system. If the pressure of the central system is sufficient for the operation of water-consuming household appliances, then there is no need to install an additional pump.
3. Quality control of incoming water by special services.

Before you start connecting to the water supply, you need to take care of the disposal of waste water. The ideal option is to connect to a centralized. If there is none in the area where the house is located, you should take care of building a reliable drain pit or installing an autonomous sewer.

Pipe laying

When the house is not a permanent place of residence, for example, it is a summer house, it is necessary to provide for turning off the water and completely draining it from the home water supply system. Such manipulation must be carried out if the dwelling is left unattended for a long winter period.

Sometimes it happens that outdated equipment in the water supply system and the water pressure is not enough. In this case, an additional installation of a pump will be required, which will increase the pressure in the system.

Not all water supply stations are properly treated. It can also be re-contaminated after passing through old, dirty pipes. In some cases, the use of such water can be the cause of diseases. Therefore, it is desirable to equip the home water supply system with special filters. Then you can’t do without installing a pump, since it will be needed to maintain the necessary pressure, sufficient so that the filters can be washed.

Advice. In any case, it is better to install water filters immediately after connection, since even in central water supply systems sanitary standards are not always observed and the quality of water can be questionable.

What documentation needs to be collected

• The act of work on the laying of the pipeline.
• Documents for hydraulic testing of the same pipeline.
• The act of washing and disinfecting the water supply.
• Help for installation.

If some of the work will be done independently, then you will additionally need:

• The act of work on digging a trench and adding sand.
• Sand filling act.
• The act of work on the backfilling of the trench.

Permission is required to carry out work

How to make an inset

1. In the water utility or in the center of land registration. plots draw up a plot plan (scale 1:500), which indicates all underground utilities.
2. In the district water utility, an application is written about the desire to connect to the water supply. Documents for house and land ownership are also provided here. After a month, the water utility service issues connection conditions - the location of the branch tie-in, the diameter of the desired pipe, etc.
3. With these documents, you need to contact the health station and there draw up an application for a conclusion on the insert.
4. In the design group of the water utility or another organization that has a license for this, it is necessary to make a connection project based on the connection conditions.
5. This project is registered in the sanitary station.
6. Further, the district communal system, on the basis of the above documents, issues a permit for land work. In this case, the location of other underground utilities is necessarily taken into account: gas supply pipes, telephone cable, etc.
7. Only special services licensed to lay pipes and crash into the system can. You can always get a list of such organizations in the water utility.

After choosing the installation team, it is necessary to conclude an agreement with them for connecting to the water supply and installing the meter.

Attention! It is strictly forbidden to independently crash into the plumbing system and install meters. Themselves are allowed to carry out only unlicensed work, namely: digging a trench, adding sand and burying a trench after tie-in.

After all that has been done, representatives of the water utility inspect the work and draw up an act of commissioning.

What work is carried out when connecting

First of all, experts calculate the cost of laying pipes. This takes into account the required length of the future water supply, the nature of the soil and obstacles in the way. It is necessary to purchase pipes of the appropriate diameter, various valves and a water meter.

Advice. If the water supply runs quite far, then it is better to pull it together with the neighbors in a clubbing. This will save you a lot of money.

For plumbing, pipes made of plastic or polyethylene are used, which in cold areas must be covered with waterproofing in case of freezing. The diameter of these pipes directly depends on the length of the water supply and on the amount of water consumed.

The trench being dug must be deeper than the freezing level, so that even in a cold winter the pipes do not freeze. The pipeline must run in a straight line. If there is a descent, this is good, the water pressure will always be sufficient, and if the pipes go up, then additional pumps will have to be installed. The bottom of the trench must be level to avoid deformation of the pipes. To do this, it is specially covered with sand, resulting in the so-called sand cushion.

Comply with all technical regulations

After a few tens of centimeters from the branch of the central water supply, a valve is installed. In the same part, you need to install a well made of concrete rings, cinder block or special plastic structures. If the water supply stretches for several houses, then a well with a valve will have to be installed on each branch.

From above, the wells are not buried, but are closed with manhole covers. This is done so that the valve has access, for example, in an emergency. The well necessarily captures the pipe section of the main water supply and the valve.

Connection can only be carried out by employees of the water utility. They cut off the flow of water in the central line, cut into the pipe, then put a valve and connect a new branch that goes directly to the house. Then the line is opened again and the valve is pushed back. From this moment, the flow of water into the house begins.

Advice. According to the recommendations of many owners of country houses, in any case, the site should have its own well. This is very convenient - the water will be stable in the house even in the event of interruptions in the central water supply. Therefore, if the site contains good quality groundwater, it is worth taking care of its arrangement. To provide the house with a constant supply of water is a very real and feasible task.

In any case, before connecting your house or suburban area to the central water supply, you need to weigh the pros and cons, calculate the financial side and time costs.