In the pavement outside our house is a 200mm square concrete "plug" or panel in a pavement slab, probably about 50mm thick. Plug is a courser mix concrete than pavement. It isnt mortared in and I could probably lift it out if necessary. What is it likely to cover ? Old Water stoptap ? I would like it to be access to the "drain" which exits our Victorian terraced house 10m away , taking both surface and foul water, and connects presumably to the main sewer in the road but which has no manholes anywhere. Photo:
Is this an Access panel in pavement
Jul 06, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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Well cannot see your picture, but Thames Water have something as you describe every few streets and the can use a kind of water pressure meter that looks a bit like a bollard which plugs in and one supposes has a cellular connection so they can track blockages or leaks. They…
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Well cannot see your picture, but Thames Water have something as you describe every few streets and the can use a kind of water pressure meter that looks a bit like a bollard which plugs in and one supposes has a cellular connection so they can track blockages or leaks. They only use them for a while of course, take that from one who has collided with many in my time of being blind! Brian
Robert wrote on 06/07/2019 :
It could even have been a coal hole. Some Victorian houses had their coal cellars extend out under the pavement, so were filled via a lift away panel in the public pavement.
Did they drop the coal lump by lump?
That is a small cover.
It happens that ARW formulated :
They used to be 12" x 12" so not much bigger that the quoted 200mm square. They would use a metal funnel to guide it in.
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