Plumbing advice please

[Sweetheart1313]

My house was extended many years ago to add a porch and a small utility room to the side of the house (semi-detached), but there is no plumbing to the utility room! It has an electricity supply already but would like to move my washing machine and tumble dryer into that room to free up space in my little kitchen.

The water supply and drainage is at the front of the house. Please could anyone advise what type of plumber I would need, what work may be involved and rough costs?

I've attached a floor plan so you can see the distance between the kitchen water supply and the utility room.

Thank you in advance

wooden floors or concrete floors?

Hi PigletJohn, thanks for replying. I've got wooden floors

you can run water pipes (insulated) under wooden floors. The plumber will have a pickaxe and chainsaw to trench them up, or a chippy will do it more neatly.

depending where your bathroom is, and how old your house, you may need to dig up the ground beside your house to trench to the drains. Observe where your manhole covers are. Don't assume you can connect to the rainwater drains because they probably go to a soakaway or a stream.

Plumbers are weedy little fellows with soft hands. To dig trenches you need a small builder, or a person who calls himself a sanitary engineer may own a spade.

Thanks for the information, that's very helpful. I've got a manhole cover about two metres from the kitchen wall which is good. Do you know roughly how long it would take and a ballpark figure on cost?

Most of the work will be digging and laying. It depends how far and how difficult. I can't guess. Probably some thousands.

Thanks for your help

That'll be handy for the OP in the U.K. Do your guys from New Jersey travel for work?

Yeah, I think it may take them a bit too long to get to my house...