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Anyone have a street lighting feeder pillar box near their home?

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  • Maz1963 said:
    Thanks for the laughs!  Would post a pic, but no idea how.
    You can upload directly from your phone / PC, click the mountain / sun rectangular box then select wherever your image is.
    Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.
  • Maz1963
    Maz1963 Posts: 122 Forumite
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    This is it.
  • Maz1963
    Maz1963 Posts: 122 Forumite
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    Maz1963 said:
    Thanks for the laughs!  Would post a pic, but no idea how.
    You can upload directly from your phone / PC, click the mountain / sun rectangular box then select wherever your image is.
    Thanks, didn't know it was that easy to do.
  • UnderOffer
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    edited 11 December 2020 at 9:30PM
    That looks like a communications cabinet for broadband services, very similar looking to Virgin that have just been installed on our estate. 
  • Robin9
    Robin9 Posts: 12,799 Forumite
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    What does the label say ?
    Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill
  • Maz1963
    Maz1963 Posts: 122 Forumite
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    I'm going to have to go back and try to talk to the site manager.  The development is small, only around 26 houses, and there's no sales office/show house. Some of the homes are completed though and the selling agent takes people round.  The agent is OK, but not the most professional one I've ever met, so I'm not sure I can trust the answers he gives me to the questions I ask.  He just waves a hand and says something, but doesn't actually seem to know a lot about the houses he's selling. I also sensed tension between him and the site manager! I'd like to actually go and have the site manager let me into the house so that I can measure some things and then I could ask him about the box - he'll be able to tell me exactly what it is.  The agent is actually bad enough to deter me from buying the place.   Might give it one more try and say I'd like a meeting with the site manager. Hopefully the agent won't come too, but I suspect he will ....
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
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    That looks like a communications cabinet for broadband services, very similar looking to Virgin that have just been installed on our estate. 
    Irs a thin one of it is one from VM, the ones Ive seen are deeper.
  • I've lived close to various junction boxes over the years. They were very good neighbours - quiet, considerate AND they kept the street lights on. 

    To the OP: there's nothing to worry about, and you're going to look quite silly if you go back to talk to the site manager about it.
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