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Comcast/detested neighbor rant (long)
Last fall my new neighbor to the south is building his house and needs to run conduit across my driveway to his place. Naturally he breaks the water line with his backhoe. The break is repaired and after calling Comcast several times to install their cable without results, the trench is filled in with gravel. The neighbor is going to put in a concrete driveway for me when he does his so the asphalt is not replaced.
Six months later, in the spring, a guy from Comcast comes to my place and wants to dig up my driveway for his cable. After arguing with them for a while the guy says he has a utility right of way and he is going to put his cable in. So he digs up the trench puts in 2" plastic pipe and fills the trench back up and leaves.
This summer we have a record setting heat wave. The universally detested neighbor to the north built his house six years ago and stuck his heat pump on the south side of his house right out side our bedroom window. Lacking air conditioning we would have liked to have had the window open for cooling, but the heat pump is running and making a horrible racket. As this is the neighbor from **** (actually the guy is alright his wife is a shrew), we decide to bite the bullet and have a fence installed.
Yesterday the fence guy comes to install the fence and he notices that the ground is soggy neat the driveway and that the northern neighbor has a hose running into mole holes directly above my property line. We open the water meter box and its full of water. We call the PUD and he digs around the meter box and reveals a leak in the repair that was done last fall. The Comcast pipe is resting on top of rhe repaired section.
So, I surmise, that the mole flooding subsided the ground allowing the Comcast pipe to press down on the repaired section causing the leak.
I am writing this as I wait for Comcast to come and fix this mess. I am wondering if I will have to wait for six months.
Six months later, in the spring, a guy from Comcast comes to my place and wants to dig up my driveway for his cable. After arguing with them for a while the guy says he has a utility right of way and he is going to put his cable in. So he digs up the trench puts in 2" plastic pipe and fills the trench back up and leaves.
This summer we have a record setting heat wave. The universally detested neighbor to the north built his house six years ago and stuck his heat pump on the south side of his house right out side our bedroom window. Lacking air conditioning we would have liked to have had the window open for cooling, but the heat pump is running and making a horrible racket. As this is the neighbor from **** (actually the guy is alright his wife is a shrew), we decide to bite the bullet and have a fence installed.
Yesterday the fence guy comes to install the fence and he notices that the ground is soggy neat the driveway and that the northern neighbor has a hose running into mole holes directly above my property line. We open the water meter box and its full of water. We call the PUD and he digs around the meter box and reveals a leak in the repair that was done last fall. The Comcast pipe is resting on top of rhe repaired section.
So, I surmise, that the mole flooding subsided the ground allowing the Comcast pipe to press down on the repaired section causing the leak.
I am writing this as I wait for Comcast to come and fix this mess. I am wondering if I will have to wait for six months.
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