Moling for services

[Canski]

Good morning everyone. 

does anyone have experience of moling under a highway ? 
 

 

I need to get services from the other side of a quiet road to my houses. The connection costs have risen sharply during the time that the invisible bats have been causing me grief. If that wasn’t bad enough the roads have still not been adopted by the council and are still the responsibility of the estate developer. The nasty developer has scared me a bit by telling me that it’s going to cost a fortune to resurface the road after a trench has been dug ( another unexpected cost without a figure) and that I would have to agree to resurfacing 15 meters of the highway after the trenching work has been completed so I was wondering about the possibility of providing the utility companies ( water and electric) with a duct that is moled across the highway to a pre agreed position.

 

I asked Severn Trent if they could mole the pipe and they said it depends on the services in the road. My drain inverts are around 1.3 m deep so they shouldn’t be a problem in the road but it still seemed uninteresting to them to organise moling. 

 

 

[Mike]

It's possible in principle, if the services in the highway are out of the way, but isn't compatible with all soil conditions. It's not going to like stony ground, for example. Even if you think you know the soil, you may come across a heap of covered-over builder's rubble / old foundations / other obstruction, so have a back-up plan.