Thames Water - dug up beautiful bricks....replaced with cement.

Poor OP. Excessive energy use, weeds already growing through the new paving slabs, trees that will destroy the drains/paving slabs in a few years and flat roofs that will need replacing in a not particularly long time. And to top it off a bit of cement in the road. New builds aren't all they are cracked up to be.
 
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Blending in nicely.
 
Skillmister said:
Poor OP. Excessive energy use, weeds already growing through the new paving slabs, trees that will destroy the drains/paving slabs in a few years and flat roofs that will need replacing in a not particularly long time. And to top it off a bit of cement in the road. New builds aren't all they are cracked up to be.
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...and only 5 bedrooms and 2500sq ft. How do people live in this city?!?
 
a1ex2001 said:
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!
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Nearly the same as here (Northumbrian Water) if you request a water meter, if your main stop tap is in the road, they will just leave it be and dig a new hole in the pavement for a new stop tap and meter without digging up the old stop tap.
 
LeeUK said:
Nearly the same as here (Northumbrian Water) if you request a water meter, if your main stop tap is in the road, they will just leave it be and dig a new hole in the pavement for a new stop tap and meter without digging up the old stop tap.
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Why would you dig up the old tap?

It'll be doing no harm left where is.
It'll avoid having to patch the road.
Leaving the old tap in place will allow them to isolate the water to install the meter without having to mess multiple houses about.
 
bremen1874 said:
Why would you dig up the old tap?

It'll be doing no harm left where is.
It'll avoid having to patch the road.
Leaving the old tap in place will allow them to isolate the water to install the meter without having to mess multiple houses about.
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Nice to see you have common sense and no inflated sense of entitlement.
 
bremen1874 said:
Why would you dig up the old tap?

It'll be doing no harm left where is.
It'll avoid having to patch the road.
Leaving the old tap in place will allow them to isolate the water to install the meter without having to mess multiple houses about.
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How does replacing a stop tap mess with the water to a whole street? Every property's supply spurs off the main pipe in the road so will only affect the property in question. Also if you are having old lead pipes replaced for plastic then they have left an old lead section between the water main > old stop tap > new stop tap.

If the water has to be cut to a whole street on a new estate for one property having a new tap, then see my comment about all trades cutting corners and being lazy these days.

Luckily my old tap was on the pavement so it was actually removed with the new tap and meter put in it's place.
 
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