Blackmore House

Sounds like a good outcome, and more importantly, you haven't been jerked around for weeks (months, years...) to get to it.

That's a great result. Well done you! 

Result !!

Great result, but doesn't this illustrate very well the perpetual self-builder's problem, which is that we can be buggered around for weeks or months just because the utilities (and it seems they are by far the worst) employ people who are, at best, incompetent?

 

Like pretty much everyone on here we were buggered about by both the DNO and OpenReach (actually, OpenReach made the DNO seem vaguely competent).  The water company ended up shooting themselves in the foot, as they were such a PITA that we opted to drill a borehole, rather than continue to play silly games with them (yet they still contact me every six months with a new offer for providing a water supply, after five years...).

 

The key seems to be being able to find an individual in the organisation that can apply a bit of common sense.  Sadly common sense doesn't seem very common...

I would just be cautious and not actually sign the wayleave agreement until you have a definite timescale and know exactly what alterations they are making.

Good to hear that this is moving in the right direction.

A good result all round.

 

I’m thankful I didn’t have your unnessessary hassle then my local DNO placed taller poles on my plot to deal with the low wires over my cabin.

 

Don’t forget your annual fee for having their equipment on your land, I get £33 per year, £11 per pole.

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2018 by Triassic

Well done, as others have said utilities are a pain to deal with (ask me how I know?).

2 hours ago, joe90 said:

Well done, as others have said utilities are a pain to deal with (ask me how I know?).

I have now been waiting a couple of months for bt who keep giving me dates that come and go without anything happening, the last contact was from their engineers who came on site and said the local authorities wouldn’t let them put up traffic lights as the road is too narrow so they asked if it would be ok with us to do it on Saturday (today) we agreed on this but today I have a text from them saying due to adverse weather conditions it will be 3 weeks until next update! There’s a light breeze today that’s all!

2 hours ago, Christine Walker said:

There’s a light breeze today that’s all!

Just a normal day in Cumbria

Good result.