I'm building a new home and just saw that my taps are connected to each other, saw my neighbors taps they seems to be seperate as normal, should I be concerned
Is this normal or do I need to report this to Yarra Valley water, Please advise, I've attached the image below
I don't know if they are actually testing anything it must been left like that for sometime, I have received an occupancy permit as well to move in.
Is it the builders fault or the water corporation that deals with this?
downstream of metering point is your/your builders plumbers responsibility.
Are you sure that 'recycled water' is online and connected in your area? Often in new estates, recycled water is 'future' or not yet fully connected and such, the meters are isolated/turned off until the upstream supply is available.
Most likely internally you have services (like toilets) connected to the recycled water supply, so if the upstream supply is isolated, this is how your internal pipework is being supplied with water until this external service is online and then this interconnection point would be removed.
Thanks SBOB, I will need to check if the recycled water is being used inside the house or fresh water by closing each valve individually
@Bujji11: Or read your house plans with water pipework displayed.
With that interconnection in place you won't be able to tell what the internal water source is.
To me, this picture just looks like one tap is sending water to the spigot of another tap. The tap without the handle is likely at full open, and the tap with the handle is the one controlling outflow. Like @SBOB says, upstream lines are probably not yet connected.
I'm not sure why you didn't just ask your builder?
The tap with handle is the fresh water tap, I could have asked my builder but they are dodgy little shits, always making excuses and throw the blame on someone else, if they can't get away from it they will ignore me for a good few weeks or months expecting me to ignore the issue completely
So I came here for answers so I can talk to right party and get it fixed
So I came here for answers so I can talk to right party and get it fixed
How rude. I'm not going to bother giving you the answer.
What was rude in my above response please enlighten me
@Bujji11: I quoted the rude bit.
You have been given 2 suggestions. You dismissed both of them and demanded the answer.
@MS Paint: @Muzeeby I was simply answering to their questions, I haven't dismissed anything, I really appreciate their inputs as to why they have been connected, which is why I'm here instead of going to my builder to find the correct answer
Could be for line testing, could be for flushing the recycled lines, could be for a number of things, but as you're building im expecting one of those lines isnt actually connected upstream yet, or has the incoming meter isolated (otherwise that is a no-no).
Ask your builder or builders plumber what they are testing by doing that.