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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:41 pm
by nelly05
What a ******.
The guy digging the garden out for me with his digger orders 8te of MOT1 (loose)
Delivery driver rolls up and drops the lot on the road - idiot fails to notice a drain in the road and it wasnt covered up (umm daft digger driver).
So the short of it is that the road gully outside the house is 80% full of mot1.
What do i do now????? Start clearing it or keep quiet!!
Regards
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 8:59 pm
by Tony McC
Start clearing it - when (not if, but when) it surcharges, and the inevitable neighbourhood busybody complains to the Council, the professional tea-drinkers from the DLO will be around, figure out what happened, and land you with a massive bill for the time their lads spend sitting in the cab reading the Daily Star and waiting for someone to tell them how to fasten their laces.
Ball-acher of a job, but with a gully scoop and a grafter spade, should only take an hour or so.
If you complain to the driver's employer, you will be told that offloading is your responsibility, and they are right, I'm afraid. It would be nice to think wagon drivers checked before they offloaded, but they don't: they rely on the customer to direct them and so they are blameless when it all goes wrong. Getting them to climb out of the cab is a major achievement, it seems: expecting them to check that it's safe to tip is expecting far too much! 
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 9:09 pm
by nelly05
Gully scoop and grafter spade - Hewdens here i come.
Unfortunately i wasnt here at the time, ah well theres always something to do when you get people in!!!
Regards
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:33 am
by Dave_L
We'll be gully-scooping sometime next week - apparently we heaved a load of planings into a road gully on a trading estate we recently resurfaced
We must have been in a bit of a rush that day.....
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:27 am
by seanandruby
next road down to the horseferry rd London. we were turning that old hospital into luxury flats. they set the static pump up inside the building. every night it was washed out and the grout filled two gullies as it went out into the road. It took two men, a jack hammer etc a week to clean it out.