neighbour refused entry to his property for essential repair.

googler

NVRAM wrote: »

common repairs and responsibilities?

I'd be very suprised if they included having to assist with repairs for each others gardens and walls

The neighbour and OP may be jointly responsible for maintenance of the 'sub main', whatever that might be, and other communal parts of the building.

1jim

I would have refused as well

Your cable is corroded, your cable is under your house, you don't want to go to the expense of paying to have the cable replaced the way it is now. Your solution is to have your neighbour have trunking in his hallway, I'm not surprised he said no, if you want trunking in yours that's up to you, it wouldn't be going in mine.

I don't think it will be such a big job, if they can trunk it through his house and through the wall into yours...how about they dig the cable under your garden, and just to the inside of your house (you will need a hole digging in the floor to allow the cable to run into your house) and then you can trunk it wherever you like, job done. Some years ago we had a burst water main under the house, water board came and dug up two lots of block paving and we had builders dig a hole in the garage near door. They used some kind of feeding robot machine to pass the new cable under ground and into the garage, I just got a plumber to connect it up and a builder to reblock the drive. More than one way to skin a cat :-)

I_have_spoken

Sounds like the contractor's were up for a bodge job. Surely having all the mains power for another house in some surface trunking in the hall is a huge safety issue and would have been flagged up in a Home Report if they wanted to sell? I'd not have agreed.