The trench outside my home
Like everyone, I want my water company to reduce the loses from broken pipes – but that comes at a price. My company is Three Valleys Water and it is currently in the process of relacing the old pipes in my street with new plastic ones. As a result, we’ve had our water cut off for up to 12 hours at a time and the front of my home is currently occupied by a deep trench.
This is one way to deter burglars
Footnote: this is the first photo taken on my mobile phone that I’ve managed to transfer to my blog (hopefully more to come)
August 1st, 2006 at 11:08 pm
I love the way the homes in your neighborhood look!
August 2nd, 2006 at 1:19 am
Well you did ask for it !!!
Seriously, good on 3VW for getting on with it – though it would have been better if the pipes had been built properly when your houses were originally constructed of course, but that would have been in the “good old days” …
Relacing pipes like yours though is straightforward compared to the task facing Thames. Indeed I wonder if relacing pipes is sensible in a system in many places unchanged since Chadwick. Would we not be better building a wholly new system of ring mains?
August 6th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
At least it is just a trench and you have a workman in the picture.
The gas board, have dug up a major part of the road outside the cottage and left a generator to operate the traffic lights. The noise is beyond belief. After two nights of no sleep we raised the issue and it has been moved. However, workman are few and far between and when they do arrive 3 hours seems to be the maximum working day.
How many hours are your lot putting in?
August 6th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
I have to say that the workers replacing our water pipes – a group from Liverpool – have been great. They have been working 12+ hours a day and have been polite and tidy. In return, we’ve given them cold beers. The work is now all complete.
August 7th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Please send Scousers up here for a few days. Geordies do get along with them.