Thames Water - dug up beautiful bricks....replaced with cement.
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Spectacularly snobby post.
As cementing goes I think it's a really nice job. Maybe it would have blended in better if the guy doing it had scored it to look like bricks...
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OP, looks like you were ready for complaining about something? How come you have a photo of the guy just setting up his barriers? As well as a photo of the hole before the cement was poured? Did you not speak to them then when you were taking that photo to ask where the bricks were?
Not set up to complain but like most people getting ready for disappointment. Seems to be the way these days - take pictures of EVERYTHING. Before you car goes for a service, before someone starts digging up a road, before someone starts installing new windows. Anything.
1.) Picture message to friend "oh look Thames Water have bothered to turn up and start digging at 11pm"
2.) Dear Thames Water. It's been a week and while you fixed the water I can't get on my drive. I'm paying £50 a day to park in an NCP car park a mile away i'd really like my drive back.
3.) Thanks doing most of it...but uh-oh. Where are the bricks that are usually coming (and no, calling does nothing)
4/5.) The end result.
Poor job but seems to be the way these days you can try complaining but expect it to fall on deaf ears. Yorkshire water buried my stop **** and when I complained instead of digging it up put a new one in the street leaving the old one buried!
The epitome of first world problems
(This isn't directed solely at you). It really annoys me when people say this, like nobody can ever be annoyed or irritated by something unless it means you're being persecuted in South Africa, or tortured in Guantanamo Bay or something. Things can still be a problem for somebody, because they're not the worst problems ever doesn't make them completely meaningless and the person should just be like 'oh well I'm not being murdered, so everything else that happens I should just let slide'.
There's a term or word for this, basically saying 'just because it's not the world's worst problem, doesn't mean it's not important', but my Google skills fail me
People who say it wont be happy until we are a third world ******** as well.
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1st world problems.
You dont own the pavement outside, didnt we have one of these recently where a strip of grass was removed by the councill?
You dont own the pavement outside, didnt we have one of these recently where a strip of grass was removed by the councill?
One of those people who might actually take pride in the area they live in?
Our developer does own it though, and we pay a service charge. Forgive me if I want to keep a lovely looking area looking good and consistent - if people stopped that it's just giving these companies free reign to do sloppy work where they please. Recall the pavements you can barely walk down and street roads that feel like you're driving offroad because they've been dug up so many times by virgin, gas, water, etc.
It doesn't have to be that way and only by raising these item as issues will they learn to do a proper job. Have some ownership and pride in your surroundings, it's the only way your area better.
Ownership aside - it's a bodge job.
Elf and safety in it - The company policy I worked for was fill it in and tarmac it - seems if you do not lay them correctly and someone trips over it will fall back on the company - I think we had to put in a restoration order after job was finished.
Things could have changed in last 20 yrs since I retired.
Things could have changed in last 20 yrs since I retired.
Precisely.It will look OK when it's dry --I would be moaning more about the spray paint.
I suspect the oruginal bricks had to be broken to remove them and the valve.
Report to the site/building management company though.
Andi.
The epitome of first world problems
This - If it was on your driveway I can understand but in reality - it's about 4 missing bricks. Get on with life and stop getting so worked up about something so small.
you've not seen much of the 'world' if you think that is a complete bodge....
while i understand the op's concerns i have to agree - pavement looks god awful to begin with.