On 09/12/2016 17:10, Huge wrote:
On 2016-12-09, Phil L wrote:
Nightjar wrote:

When the gas company replaced the services in my road they dug
trenches in the road, but used a mole to run new pipes to each
property. The water company's contractor also used a mole to replace
the service pipe to my next door neighbour recently. I don't think
the gas company likes ducts, as they can pose an explosion risk.

They require perforated ducting and it must be yellow, they won't put gas
pipe in anything else.

To the OP:

Red for leccy, they will supply it, unlike the gas people.

Water and leccy can go in the same hole as can gas and leccy. Not gas and
water though, water must be kept away from the gas mains - apparently
someone who's probably never dug a hole in his entire life has suggested
that gas leaking can 'affect' the water pipe and contamination and/or
deteriation could occur.

Nonsense. It's because water in the gas mains is a nightmare to sort out.


See my comment above. I remember it well. Neighbour was an air hostess
and she came home to a cold house and a hole in her front garden where
BG had chopped and sealed her supply while she was over the Atlantic.