We received a letter this morning announcing that the gas utility company will be installing a new service pipe down the entire street and to everyones meter, within the next couple of weeks.
Not entirely unexpected, because the old steel pipe which run along the back garden route are known to be rotten and leaking. They have been appearing regularly with the leak sniffers, every few weeks. Of ccurse everyone has built over the main pipe run, since the houses were built, so now hteir cheapest route is down the street and up individual drives.
So this morning, on reading the brief letter I rang them to see if I can find out anymore detail, but all I really found out was that they would have a consultation with us, before work began and that they were running the pipe along the street side, which means they will be likely disturbing the concrete of my drive.
It is front half rubbish, which needs replacing and half really good solid concrete. I'm now just wondering about how far they will go with reinstating the drive? What can we expect?