Supply Lines From The Meter
The run from the meter to the house replaced in one length where possible, laid at the right depth and tested.
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Plumbing installations in Bellville cover everything on your side of the water meter: new supply lines, repiping, extensions, granny flats and outbuildings. Every run is sized for the fittings it serves and pressure-tested before it is covered.
Tell us what is being built or replaced, and whether there are plans or a builder involved.
New pipework is only as good as its sizing and its testing. Both are done before anything is covered.
The run from the meter to the house replaced in one length where possible, laid at the right depth and tested.
Tired or leaking internal pipework replaced in copper or approved composite, planned to open as little as possible.
Supply and drainage for new rooms, tied into the existing system with the capacity checked first.
Full plumbing for a second dwelling, including hot water, drainage and a separate isolating valve.
New outside taps, irrigation connections and supply to outbuildings, laid at a safe depth with backflow protection.
First and second fix on new houses, working to the drawings and the builder's programme.
The City of Cape Town is replacing water mains across the Northern Suburbs. In October 2025 it replaced 12.76 km of water pipes in areas including Bellville, Boston, Welgemoed, Glenlilly, Parow Industria, Tygerdal, Scottsdene and Brackenfell. Between January and February 2026 another 11.9 km went in across the metro, including Bellville, Parow and Brackenfell, with old fibre cement pipe replaced by uPVC.
None of that touches your plumbing. The City's responsibility ends at the meter. The pipe from the meter to the house, and everything inside the house, is the owner's, and it is as old as the last time somebody replaced it. A street with a brand new main can still be feeding houses through supply lines that have been in the ground for decades.
The meter-to-house run is also the pipe people forget exists. It usually lies under a driveway, paving or a garden bed, so a leak on it can run for months before anything shows on the surface, and the first sign is often a water account that does not match the household.
When the City has been working in your street, it is a sensible moment to check your own side. A meter test shows whether the supply line is leaking, and a look at the pipe where it rises from the ground shows what it is made of. Replacing it in one length, laid at the proper depth, can often be done in a single day.
The City's pipe replacement programme stops at your meter. If your street has been renewed, ask when your own supply line last was.
New pipework should outlast the finishes over it. These are the steps that make that likely.
Pipe sizes worked out for the fittings each run serves, so the far tap is not starved.
Every run is pressure-tested before it goes into a wall, a trench or a slab.
Where the pipes run is photographed before it is hidden, so future work does not hit them.
Materials and pipe sizes are written into the quote, so you know exactly what is being installed.
They are priced from the layout: the length of each run, the materials, the number of points and how much has to be opened or dug. Every element is itemised before work starts. The plumber prices page explains how quotes are built.
The owner. The City is responsible for its mains and the connection up to the meter. Everything on the property side of the meter is private plumbing.
A single leak on an otherwise sound pipe is worth repairing. Repeated leaks on the same line, or a line of a material that is failing along its length, are cheaper to replace in one length than to patch repeatedly.
Copper and approved multilayer composite pipes are both used for supply, chosen by position and budget, and uPVC for drainage. The materials are specified in writing in the quote.
A new dwelling generally needs approved building plans, and the plumbing is installed to those plans. The layout also decides whether the flat can share the main house's drainage and hot water or needs its own.
Often a new route can be run through the roof space and dropped to each point, leaving old pipes abandoned in the walls. It is planned to open as little as possible.
Yes. Every run is pressure-tested before it is covered, and the test is photographed so you have a record.
Yes. First fix and second fix dates are agreed with the builder at the start, so the plumbing never holds up the other trades.
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