OT: Water meter loose

This time of year we are still getting low temperatures so it is possible that some ice may form on that road in the early hours .So some poor sod slips if on foot and incurs all sorts of personal issues and likely costs the NHS a few thousand or someone skids in a vehicle causing damage and has to claim on their insurance . And so the water company gets away with incurring the cost of keeping adequate emergency cover available because others pay for the consequential damage caused by their inaction. These companies need to be sued more often,or preferably their senior management should be held accountable and hit in their pockets.

GH

I agree. I will bring that up with the householder when I next see him. I will go and look at the situation this afternoon.

I certainly persuaded our local water company that freezing conditions were likely to contribute to a road accident. They came out quickly ;-)

Seems odd not to have a stopcock of some sort (unless rotating the meter normally does this?). No sign of another “upstream” toby and associated stopcock out on the pavement or road?

Tim

Update.

1. There was a stopcock there until the meter was installed. There has been no mention of stopping the flow by rotating the meter, but when the meter won't even stay on its perch, that wouldn't be of much use anyway.

1. The owners called Essex and Suffolk Water again last night, and they believe that their downhill neighbours did also, as that house has over the years sunk below the level of the road surface as successive road improvements have taken place. My own house has a cellar window that now looks up at the underneath of the roadway surface. The Water Company came out at about 9:30 last night and reinstalled the meter. The mystery of the missing stopcock is yet to be solved.

So, Fixed, but questions still remain.

On ice skates?

What's a "toby"? Apart from being a decorative jug in the shape of a rotund man?

None. There used to be a stopcock there, but the meter replaced it.

Seems to me that there should still be a way to shut off water if the meter replaced the old stopcock. Any chance of a photo?

Tim

I don't think so, but I believe the house owner is going to ask the water company.

In my case, there is a stopcock adjacent to the meter. It's all black, so a good torch is needed to locate it.