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Virgin Media roadworks will affect my working from home

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Hi all,
I work in IT. I used to work one day a week from home, now because of covid-19 it is temporarily five days a week as our office is not really covid secure.
Virgin Media started to do roadworks in my area, they are only at the beginning of the street now, but they will dig right in front of our property. The noise will definitely affect my work, as sometimes it requires loads of concentration. I am not sure what can I do. Shall I just raise a complaint to them, when they are at our street? Will they do anything with it? Can I get compensated for this kind of a situation? 
Cheers,
Steve
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  • Penguin_
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    I highly doubt it, best advice you'll get is either work at the rear of the house with the windows closed or buy some noise cancelling headphones.
  • Penguin_ said:
    I highly doubt it, best advice you'll get is either work at the rear of the house with the windows closed or buy some noise cancelling headphones.
    Ok, thanks. That's what I thought :/ I'll try to figure out the best solution
  • brewerdave
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    Assuming that you are NOT paying for a business broadband connection ,than no ISP/CONTRACTOR would compensate you for downtime.
  • JJ_Egan
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    Neither will any contractor that digs up your road and makes a bit of noise .If its a VM cable laying its not really noisy for hours and days on end .
    OP your insurance may cover you as you have notified them you are working from home on your house insurance .
    Alternative ask your employer to pay for accommodation .
  • Barny1979
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    Compensation? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  • Chino
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    edited 9 September 2020 at 1:27PM
    Assuming that you are NOT paying for a business broadband connection
    That's not relevant to the OP's question. We have no idea whether VM is the OP's ISP. The OP is asking about entitlement to compensation for noise pollution caused by a contractor's activities.
  • Assuming that you are NOT paying for a business broadband connection ,than no ISP/CONTRACTOR would compensate you for downtime.
    VM is not our provider. I really hope their work will not cause any downtime
    JJ_Egan said:
    Neither will any contractor that digs up your road and makes a bit of noise .If its a VM cable laying its not really noisy for hours and days on end .
    OP your insurance may cover you as you have notified them you are working from home on your house insurance .
    Alternative ask your employer to pay for accommodation .
    Well, it's started on Monday, and getting noisier and closer every day. It's about 4-5 hours a day, when they "actually" work.
    I'm pretty sure this is not covered in my home insurance.
  • Barny1979
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    When do you expect them to do the work??
  • Barny1979 said:
    When do you expect them to do the work??
    I think they have permit to do work until 17th. So I would say early next week will be the "epicentre" :)
  • Barny1979
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    pape03 said:
    Barny1979 said:
    When do you expect them to do the work??
    I think they have permit to do work until 17th. So I would say early next week will be the "epicentre" :)
    I was meaning when do you expect them to do the work if they shouldn't do the work in the day?
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