Will I haveto pay for damaged powercable

tinkerbelle

A JTR is charged at double time per hour on bank holiday. The charge is normally between £30-£35 per hour at normal rate. How many teams came out to your property? It will be more expensive if you cut the power to your property or anyone else in the street. When you phoned in did they ask for any billing details? What was the name on the side of the van that came out to you as national grid do not distribute the electric to your property.


They will have taken a cable depth reading and this will determine if you will be charged or not. If you contact EON on the number you phoned and request the number for the local depot who should be able to tell you if you will be charged.

JC_Derby

drop me a pm savvy,
I may be able to help you.

JC_Derby

I will need some further information though
Was it your service cable or a mains cable
Was the cable in your property?
Does your path run along the border of your property?
what were you putting the fence post in with?
were you replacing a fence or a totally new one?
how long has the power cable been there?


and to clarify...the power company is the Distribution network operator...not the people you pay your bills to ( your supplier).


Your comments look like your trying to blame someone else...im afraid that wont wash at all. There maybe circumstances when you wont get a bill, but trying to blame someone else wont be one of them.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

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Pincher

If there were no signs, how is anyone supposed to know?
A gas company or water company could have easily done the same thing. Maybe you can offer to pay half. If you offer before they issued the bill, they can just double the bill, though.

JC_Derby

Pincher wrote: »

If there were no signs, how is anyone supposed to know?
A gas company or water company could have easily done the same thing. Maybe you can offer to pay half. If you offer before they issued the bill, they can just double the bill, though.

Cable plans, marker tape, cable locating devices, careful hand digging

Pincher

The insurance company underpinned my front perimeter walls, due to a tree on the pavement. This afforded me a rare view into this "careful digging" process.

The insurance company appointed a loss adjuster, who swears blind that they are NOT trying to save money, but managed to drag it out for ten years "observing" and patching cracks superficially. Finally, they appointed Goodyer to actually do the underpinning. After a couple of scheduled visits by managers and supervisors, I woke up one morning to find a dozen Romanians smoking and waiting in front of my house. The English speaking Romanian supervisor hadn't turned up yet. When he did, I explained that nobody told me they were coming, but he was expecting to take the house apart for wall repairs as well as underpinning. The thought that we were living in the house hadn't occurred to anyone.

When it got organised, and the work proceeded, they basically had two Romanians who didn't speak ANY English digging under the house, which exposed the 100Amp mains supply, as well the yellow gas pipe, which was apparently renewed about ten years earlier. Neither was discovered by using maps and diagrams. It was purely careful digging by the two labourers.

Various works went on for about three years, so I got to know the system a bit. Goodyer takes the money for a job, which could be £10,000 for underpinning, gives £1,000 to the Romanians, spends some money on hiring cement mixers and Portaloo (even though we had three working toilets!). As far as I could tell, the underpinning design was a generic design that wasn't specifically for my wall. Just as well, because I don't think the Romanians could read it anyway.

I am reminded of Douglas Adams and the planning documents at the bottom of a filing cabinet in the basement of an office on Ursa Minor, hidden in a disused lavatory, behind a locked door with a sign saying "Beware of the Leopard".

I'll bet you will be saying, "You cut through the gas pipe because the map only shows where the electrical stuff are. You should have looked up this other map kept by this other company for gas pipes."

And then, "You Silly Billy, water pipes are on that other diagram, kept by the council."

I totally believe the very obese English foremen who turn up to check the work have been on loads of training courses, and are fully aware of the existence of these diagrams you talk about,
and I also fully sympathise with them for not wanting to waste their time looking for them, unless they absolutely have to.