Thames Water RemEdial Works

The approval certificate was given on Monday with two  conditions

1. That I dug out the last 1m in the elevated bank up to the footpath (I assumed Thames Water would use some sort of mole device bu it seems not to be the case.
2. That where the water pipe was less than 750mm below ground I had to encase this in a conduit
   This meant diging out all the infill above the new pipe.,

Considering my previous pipe was 50 mm below ground and the pipe coming from the existing mains is only 500mm we clearly have one rule for Thames water and another for me - you dig we do'nt dig

So yestereday evening I did dig out the last 1M of soil and rediscovered the GAS pipe - if you look at the picture you will see that the water pipe was laid on (resting)  the gas pipe - one does wonder what standards were in place in the mid sixties.

I had some electrical plastic conduit which I was told would be sufficient but as it had electrical cables printed on it  I decided to paint it blue (to avoid confusion in late years and to make a stencil for the word water

Here is my stencil
I printed it using the font Stencil stuck it on to the Cardbord and then cut out athe letters
I then tested this on a spare Brick using some gold paint - much to my surprise it seemed to work,

 I painted  the conduit blue and using my template printed  Water on the pipe
the reult was surprisngly good

Now to get ready for the conduit  i had to dig out all the in-fill above the new pipe and get this as low as i could ready to slide on the conduit
below you see the hole dug down to the level at which the new water pipe goes through the foundations

I will have the final pictures of all this in place tomorrow  , On the left  is a picture for Steve, the Thames water inspector to prove i dug out all of the in-fill above the new pipe, tomorrows picture will show the new conduit in place - so by Tomorrow evening I will have completed all the things requested by Thames Water .
Now in the words of Daniel my old Boss in France - "Just give me a date...." Please!

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