Electricity/Water/Sewer lines under garage

Hello everyone,

we want to build a single-family house with a garage on a developed plot. However, the garage is supposed to be located exactly between the connection points and the utility room. Our municipal water master said that the water pipe is always laid straight, along the shortest path, and therefore will run exactly in the middle under the garage. However, he does not see any problem with that.

Personally, I don't really like that. How would it work if the pipe is ever defective? You wouldn't be able to access it anymore. Is laying it straight really common? When it comes to wastewater, I can understand that. But especially with a supply line, I wouldn't have expected that this pipe necessarily has to run straight.

What do you think about it and how can one solve this with the garage without moving the garage? (Unfortunately, that is not possible)

Thanks in advance and best regards

This is common. I don't know if you have to do it. If it is defective exactly there, the garage floor will be broken up and then dug up accordingly. But it should actually be irrelevant to you because the municipality bears all the costs. As far as I know, the handover point is the meter inside the house. That means everything up to the meter belongs to the municipality and must be repaired by the municipality. Everything after that is your problem. I wouldn't worry about it.

... but isn't the cable laid in a correspondingly large protective conduit anyway? You should be able to access both ends that way (head hole) and then replace the defective part under the garage. If it should ever break...

So in BW they don’t want that. Preferably not to build over the house connections. Therefore, we also laid it in a curve. Additional meters must then be borne by the builder.

With us, the water pipe is a (double-walled) PE pipe. Nothing with protective casing.

With us, the water pipe is a (double-walled) PE pipe. Nothing to do with a protective pipe.

O.K. I’m curious what our waterworks will say. I once talked to them about wastewater. Flexible is something else :-/