Water meter istallation

aabarnes1

Good morning, for anyone who has had a meter installed in a traditional house on a traditional street with concrete footpaths with a stopcock located directly outside the property then you will be familiar with the way Farran's,( they are the contractors for Irish Water) operate. For those of you yet to experience the mess, noise and inconvenience of having your property entrance/driveway completely blocked, then let me enlighten about my own situation.
They arrived at my, and all others on my road last Thursday, 29 May early morning. They erect a barrier of 4 or 5 safety fences around the existing stopcock- fine, H&S and all that. An hour later a guy came around and marked a square about 30" x 30" with a machine that would wake the long time dead!
The following day they completed digging and installing the meter, replacing the concrete etc, that was Friday.
Today is Tuesday 3 June and the barrier fences are still in place.
My point is this : I had no vehicular access or wheelchair access to my own property for 5 days, for a job that takes a couple of hours to complete,(their words not mine). It is, in my view wrong, unnecessary and disrespectful.

L1011

There's other contractors - but Sierra were similarly bad here

rameire

if it wasnt a bank holiday weekend it would have been quicker, timing wasnt good for you unfortunately.
as for me, it was Sierra, they were so quick it was over in two days.

spacetweek

aabarnes1 wrote: »

The following day they completed digging and installing the meter, replacing the concrete etc, that was Friday.
Today is Tuesday 3 June and the barrier fences are still in place.

Were they waiting for concrete to dry?

roundymac

We had Murphy's do ours, started on a Tuesday, finally got our drive back at 5.30pm on the friday.

Godge

They do provide for wheelchair access if asked, most driveways are wide enough. Certainly that was the case in two situations I know about, maybe different contractors.

The vehicular access one is more difficult to provide for but a short walk never did anybody any harm.