Yes but does the OP have the same knowledge as you do
Gas main replacement question
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Yes but does the OP have the same knowledge as you do
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He likes his googling does Benny boy and almost always gets it wrong
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Bernard you actually spoke to cadent managers back in 2013 ? also you said first two cadent employees on sight of reported leak started digging exactly were you said . This is not what actually happens so i suggest you came along afterwards or heard word of mouth there were road diggers on site
was it not later that Cadent were formed ? 2016/2017 maybe ? cant really remember, but didnt think they were Cadent in 2013, I worked for about 5 company names, and never changed jobs
A short history of gas works in the village
Year 2103 was the medium pressure line was laid through the village along the High Street to the nearby Science Park,
October 2017 was when several gas mains were upgraded along the High Street and in a side road
after this work in October 2017 there were frequent and persistant reports that gas could be smelt
These reports and futile searches for the leak continued until January 2018
Contractors spent about three weeks sniffing and cutting core holes in the High Street
At this point a strongly worded complaint was sent to the CEO of Cadent, this included a suggestion as to where the leak was.
This was the diagram of our prediction of what had cause the leak
and this was our prediction of where the leak was.
Senior Cadent Management came to the village and spoke with us.
They arranged for Cadent engineers to come to the village to locate and repair the leak.
The engineers worked from 8 in the morning till almost 10 at night
The leak was less than 2 feet from where we had predicted it to be.
This was the joint being re-sealed about 9 o'clock at night
so you now have elaborated to bring into play 2017 so your telling me for 4 months no one phoned up the emergency number to report a smell of gas on high street not even a passerby . because i know exactly how it would have been dealt with and found that day and it would not have involved the original contractors in any way .
Cant understand why the didnt just call Benny boy instead of doing that "sniffing and cutting bore holes in the high street" Amatures really need to sort themselves out
You spoiled brat , we had a breaker and shovelsian i used to tow a big jcb behind me just for these occasions
They came out on the first report and could not find the leak let alone repair it.
The continuing smell of gas and reports meant there were "gas engineers" (*) up and down the High Street for more than three weeks drilling holes in the road and sniffing for gas. We had a large core drilling machine in the High Street on two or three nights.
You might have been told how it should have been dealt with but on this occasion it was a long drawn out fiasco of incompetence and failure by the contractors.
(*) "engineers" who were later described by a Cadent manager as being numpties
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Why would I use a search engine when, at the time, I was talking with D---- H---- a member of the Cadent Executive Complaints Team who took charge of the incident.
Two of the many core holes drilled in the search for the leak.
Some of the dozens of sniffer holes and the excavated vent to prevent gas seeping through the stone wall of a building.
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