Leaning Telegraph pole

[Deleted User]

There is a telegraph pole down the road from us - that has been leaning at about 1 degree for the last 20 years - it has now started to lean at 2 degrees..

Is it worth reporting to Openreach or will they ignore it until it is at a greater angle or is the council the way to go ?

Browntoa

Report to openreach , they will inspect and replace if needed

[Deleted User]

The pole does not cover my service and BT's website only allows you to communicate online as an account holder !

Even online chat requires a BT account

I won't bother

EnterUserName

Have you tried this?

https://www.fixmystreet.com/

littleboo

You need to report it to Openreach, not BT

https://www.openreach.com/help-and-support/damage-health-and-safety

EssexExile

Deleted_User said:

There is a telegraph pole down the road from us - that has been leaning at about 1 degree for the last 20 years - it has now started to lean at 2 degrees..

Is it worth reporting to Openreach or will they ignore it until it is at a greater angle or is the council the way to go ?

I wouldn't worry about it, plenty of poles lean a lot more than 2°. 

sevenhills

Deleted_User said:

The pole does not cover my service and BT's website only allows you to communicate online as an account holder !

Even online chat requires a BT account

I won't bother

I tried to report a leaning pole last year, I was unable to do that online. Its still leaning and it hasn't fallen over, there is also an Openreach van parked very close to it.

So if he hasn't done anything about it, I guess its ok.

J_B

sevenhills said:

I tried to report a leaning pole last year,....................

Same here - it's impossible to contact O/R in a non emergency role

Someone crashed their car into a pole and snapped it!!!

I ended up calling plusnet who were our ISP at the time and suddenly all hell was let loose with several O/R vans arriving, but, it was after 6pm, so ..... overtime!

shinytop

Deleted_User said:

There is a telegraph pole down the road from us - that has been leaning at about 1 degree for the last 20 years - it has now started to lean at 2 degrees..

Is it worth reporting to Openreach or will they ignore it until it is at a greater angle or is the council the way to go ?

That needs some very accurate measuring to detect 1 to 2 degrees.

We have a pole in our front garden that has an official yellow defect sign on it that says it's leaning 9 degrees.  It's dated 2012.  Even if you report it I would hold my breath ...

[Deleted User]

shinytop said:

Deleted_User said:

There is a telegraph pole down the road from us - that has been leaning at about 1 degree for the last 20 years - it has now started to lean at 2 degrees..

Is it worth reporting to Openreach or will they ignore it until it is at a greater angle or is the council the way to go ?

That needs some very accurate measuring to detect 1 to 2 degrees.

We have a pole in our front garden that has an official yellow defect sign on it that says it's leaning 9 degrees.  It's dated 2012.  Even if you report it I would hold my breath ...

I simply looked at it and lined it up with a house wall (that "should be" vertical and using a protractor measured 2 degrees - simple

The problem is not the angle but the change in angle - and this one is getting worse