In article , Wanderer
writes
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:30:56 +0000 (GMT), Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:07:45 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman wrote:

Yes, but I live in Central London. If I lived where you do, I'd
probably have a full blown standby diesel genny by now ...

It was high up the list when we moved in. A couple of the poles
supporting our (we are the only people on it) 1/2mile single phase
11kV spur are at rather odd angles

Have you actually bothered to give them a bell and tell them a couple of
poles are leaning? Better to tell them and have them come and push the
poles up in decent weather than wait until a storm brings them even
further over and possibly cuts off your leccy supply.

No!, you can't do that with today's accountant driven supply industry.
Preventative maintenance and genuine customer care?!. Leave it out, its
far cheaper, whoops economic, to wait for the things to collapse rather
then have that money wasted before they do.

Perish the thought!.....
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Tony Sayer