BT action

Following the signs of BT action reported at reference 1 a few days ago, more action today, action subcontracted to the Rotorod people, who turned up with a couple of vans. I think they were trying to drill, fifty yards south down the road, to the sign in the sidewalk outside our house. Snapped again here for the convenience of readers.

As I turned up, one of the men was peering at the yellow water oozing up through the asphalt, just about where the sign was. Apparently the drilling takes the form of fracking, of water at 1200psi, water which in this case was forcing its way up through the ground, instead of along the BT duct.

The allegation was that the Thames Water people had broken the BT duct when they put our water meter in, quite a few years ago now. With the connection of water to our house having leaked anyway from time to time for perhaps twenty years, with some of those leaks having resulted in holes in the road.

Rotorod pull out of Epsom today and will be heading to Orpington for the next stage in the campaign to fibre the home counties. Meanwhile, a fault has been raised with Thames Water. That sits there until the council lift the coronavirus bar (?) on all such works. Then maybe the BT people will come back next year to finish getting fibre to our bit of Epsom.

Meanwhile also, my expensive and usually reliable BT Cloud service is failing to synchronise. Not an immediate pain as I use it mainly for backup - but one more thing to attend to in these busy times.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-first-outing.html.