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maltrab

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My B.I.L moved a few months ago, the houses had a BT socket in the hall, the cable run from the socket to the junction box on the pole close by, yet BT said there was no line to the home and wanted £120 to install one, so we checked and he was in a Virgin Media area and for £22 a month on a 18 month contract for 100mb down with no installation cost seemed a good deal.

The install team arrived in a couple of days but there was a blocked duct in the street, so they booked another team to come and sort it, this only took a couple of days, so all complete within 8 days of placing the order, part of this work required a new junction box within the pavement which is about 4 inches square. they finished it off very neatly with some tarmac.

Today the local council arrived, 3 men inspected this work, scratched their heads, dug out the tarmac and replaced it with the same and went on their merry way
 
My B.I.L moved a few months ago, the houses had a BT socket in the hall, the cable run from the socket to the junction box on the pole close by, yet BT said there was no line to the home and wanted £120 to install one, so we checked and he was in a Virgin Media area and for £22 a month on a 18 month contract for 100mb down with no installation cost seemed a good deal.

The install team arrived in a couple of days but there was a blocked duct in the street, so they booked another team to come and sort it, this only took a couple of days, so all complete within 8 days of placing the order, part of this work required a new junction box within the pavement which is about 4 inches square. they finished it off very neatly with some tarmac.

Today the local council arrived, 3 men inspected this work, scratched their heads, dug out the tarmac and replaced it with the same and went on their merry way
Auditioning for Three men and a Wangle it seems!
 
It's getting to that time of year when they need to point at stuff and say " this is what your council tax was spent on this year " so that we it didn't think it all went on the 54 councillors fact finding mission with their spouses and kids to the Caribbean last month or the season tickets to the cricket ground.
 
Didn't quite have the same as you T, but when BT wanted to optic me in they had to apply to Corwall Housing, the owners of the footpath that needed digging, they had to send the application to the "Committee", who then had to return the result to Cornwall Housing, who, in turn, had to let BT know. Well, each stage took about 16 to 18 days...... 'nuff said!'
 
Don't talk about non-ladder guys! On our terrace each property has a porch light, these are, as you should be able to guess, in the porch, but not all of them. Along at number 15 and number 25 the porch light is mounted, about 9 feet up on the wall, next to the porch.
The council, in their wisdom, state that to change the light bulbs of those two porch lights, the entire premises (15 and 25) will need FULL scaffolding!

So, for a £2.00 bulb fitting it will cost the taxpayer a good couple of thousand pounds!
 
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My B.I.L moved a few months ago, the houses had a BT socket in the hall, the cable run from the socket to the junction box on the pole close by, yet BT said there was no line to the home and wanted £120 to install one, so we checked and he was in a Virgin Media area and for £22 a month on a 18 month contract for 100mb down with no installation cost seemed a good deal.

The install team arrived in a couple of days but there was a blocked duct in the street, so they booked another team to come and sort it, this only took a couple of days, so all complete within 8 days of placing the order, part of this work required a new junction box within the pavement which is about 4 inches square. they finished it off very neatly with some tarmac.

Today the local council arrived, 3 men inspected this work, scratched their heads, dug out the tarmac and replaced it with the same and went on their merry way

:08: Blood and stomach pills :08:
 
Don't talk about non-ladder guys! On our terrace each property has a porch light, these are, as you should be able to guess, in the porch, but not all of them. Along at number 15 and number 25 the porch light is mounted, about 9 feet up on the wall, next to the porch.
The council, in their wisdom, state that to change the light bulbs of those two porch lights, the entire premises (15 and 25) will need FULL scaffolding!

So, for a £2.00 bulb fitting it will cost the taxpayer a good couple of thousand pounds!
House over the road from me had scaffolding put up about 3 weeks ago, Monday 6 council workers in 4 council vans came and changed the down pipe! 6 of them on the scaffolding chatting and making phones calls for an hour and a half!
 

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House over the road from me had scaffolding put up about 3 weeks ago, Monday 6 council workers in 4 council vans came and changed the down pipe! 6 of them on the scaffolding chatting and making phones calls for an hour and a half!
This is so common. It's both offensive, ridiculous and a waste of thousands possibly millions in council tax.
 
Council street cleaner who is responsible ( :fp: ) for my road amongst many others is a lazy xxxx.
He quite literally waddles ten feet picks up a piece of litter with a litter picking thingy and puts it into a barely able bin liner. Does this for about 200ft gets in his van, fxxxx with his phone, eats, drives off. I detest this behaviour. I live in what one might call a posh neighbourhood so God knows how he is elsewhere. Actually I do know. He sits in his van, does very little and drives off. People have complained but alas nepotism is rife. Absolute state of it.
 
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