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36 minutes ago, woody paul said:

About 200m but there a cattle trough at half way below suspect    tree which has bad pressure too.

It sounds like you are going to have to replace some of the pipe, turn off water and cut into it until you have decent pressure and replace that section maybe, or go all out and replace the lot. The materials would be covered for about £150. I know a company that will thrust bore it for you if you don't want to dig it up.

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You'll probably be best off replacing the whole length of pipe.

My experience is you don't know what hodge podge is underground. Joins, junctions, redundant pipes blanked off etc.

 

There was one leaking pipe we dig up which was blue MDPE, joined to black alkathene, joined to copper, joined to lead !! :|

 

You can listen for and locate leaks using a steel rod (like a pinch bar).

 

Some people believe in dousing too.

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Another leak I dug up was a long length of now redundant pipe which had just been blanked off at the far end and buried, so still under pressure. Think I dug that out all the way back to the junction at the "main" supply pipe

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Our tree roots around here don’t go much deeper than two feet deep. I replace any old knackered pipe works to a minimum of four feet into the clay if drainage points allow it. Very unlikely to be trees comprising water feed pipes. It’s usually old clay drainage pipes that get roots finding their way in.
Problem is most probably furred up steel pipe works that’s causing a pressure drop. As someone said find best pressure upstream and renew from there

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5 hours ago, scbk said:

You'll probably be best off replacing the whole length of pipe.

My experience is you don't know what hodge podge is underground. Joins, junctions, redundant pipes blanked off etc.

 

There was one leaking pipe we dig up which was blue MDPE, joined to black alkathene, joined to copper, joined to lead !! :|

 

You can listen for and locate leaks using a steel rod (like a pinch bar).

 

Some people believe in dousing too.

It looks likes someone's had a dousing......

 

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On 26/06/2018 at 04:56, woody paul said:

Water pressure has dropped off to house in the last couple of years, have checked for leak found a couple of small leaks between mine and house up the road this is all on private property   but still bad.

Pipe travels by a oak tree so has anyone now if root can squash pipe to cause restricted flow.

A shovel is a good tool.

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Yes roots can cause problems with water pipes. Just fixed one of our farm troughs just a couple of days ago. Large rood was pressing on the pipe and it had pushed it into a sharp rock causing the leak. Only got pictures of the bodged repair ?

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