Thursday, April 21, 2011

Paving Fail

The paving was supposed to be done this morning so I drove past the block on my way to the train station hoping to catch the tradies and sort out the cross over. When I got there the 3 guys were frantically trying to find the water mains as they'd burst a pipe near the front door.

I told them it was on the left hand side of the block, half way up the driveway. They had rung the site supervisor and got told it was on the RHS. They dug madly while I tried to remember exactly were it was located, after 20 minutes I gave up and headed back to the house to find a photo. I raced back down the street and eventually we managed to locate the meter buried about 500mm under the driveway.


Going back into my photo archives now I think it got buried sometime last year when they started piling up the rubbish on that side of the block and never re-surfaced when they cleared it away.

In the end nothing got done, Water Corp. needs to come by and relocate the meter and a plumber needs to fix the break near the door. Here's the offending pipe. Way too close to the surface, hopefully the pavers will hide the hole in the render.