In message , at 14:58:07 on Mon, 16 Sep
2013, www.GymRatZ.co.uk remarked:
Got an engineer booked in got a Live/Dead check on the weekend.
The original street pipe was replaced with plastic one last year so I'd
have hoped they might have hooked all properties at the time rather than
now have to come and dig the road back up to connect the occasional house.
Time will tell.

That may depend on who was living in the house at the time of the
replacement exercise. I had a house about eight years ago where they
gave very little notice (although clearly there were holes in the road
everywhere) and tried to give the impression that if you didn't
co-operate and let them in on exactly the day they were doing your bit
of the street, that they'd just cut it off and carry on without you.

It wouldn't take more than a week or two being away to have missed the
entire exercise.
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Roland Perry