Why do workmen take so long.

[jackie j]

Not sure if the title is right.
The roads around our house are being dug up for much needed gas pipe repairs.
Our house is about 100 years old and is terraced mostly 2 cars per house no parking except in the road. Road starts to be dug up, a hole here a hole there another hole and another, you get the picture. Parking getting more and more difficult and the area is part permit ( one side ), part hourly ( small area ) and a bit all day. Today work started at 10ish and finished at 3pm WHY ??? its not raining its not Friday. Phoned up Wales and West utilities and he said they will be finishing for the winter filling in the holes and work will start again in January. eh am I missing something essential works for GAS repairs. We were orriginally told gas would be off on the 14th December. Surely they would want to get the job done as quickly and efficiently and without too much distruption.
I am baffled to say the least.

[Pies]

Does winter end in Jan then?

[jacob marley]

Does winter end in Jan then?

That is when it usually when it is just starting ....jacob

[pigletwillie]

The hours are probably to miss the people who nornally park there but go out to work, causing much less disturbance for them. If the place is rammed with cars how do you expect THEM to park or move in plant, pipes and the like. In addition I am sure some would complain if they blocked the road or made noise at 7am or after the kiddies got home at 3pm.

The quarry I work in supplies an awful lot of stone to the utilities and to be fair I would not do their job if you paid me, there is ALWAYS somebody who moans and groans about access, noise, time, yadayadayada. I suggest those that do try and work in a muddy hole for a living, rain or not.

Our gas pipes have just been done and it caused disruption for nearly 4 weeks in the streets. However our old and decaying pipes are now shiny and new and wont need digging up again for about a century.

Oh, and as for the winter break, the M6 hard shoulder works in Brum are now finishing up for the winter, but restart on Jan 4th.

[ginger ninger]

DON'T get me started about workmen.....PLEEEEEASE.

[Alice]

My daughter has the workmen in her house.
They are now into wk 11 of a 5 wk job.
How does that work

[jackie j]

I appreciate the work has to be done and I know it will cause some distruption but when I phoned up. the chap on the phone admitted he was at a loss to know why they had dug so many holes without doing anything else and he said he would have thought that by now some of the holes at the top of the road would have been filled in thus making some space before they took more. Where else are we supposed to park when the only car parks are in town. In the mornings we get a lot of people trying to park while they are at work in the town they should be parking in the town car parks. We have to pay for a permit to park near our house so why shouldnt they pay as well. ( not the workmen ). Before permits were brought in it was like brands hatch around here with evryone trying to park.