Banging/tilted manhole cover noisy nuisance

[Smk80]

Hi members

There is a loose/tilted manhole cover outside our house on a busy road and it's continually making a loud banging when cars drive over it (pretty much all day). I have reported to the council but they say all they can do is request the contractor who fitted it to repair it.

I am getting nowhere - just radio silence.

Any tips on what I can do to fix it? I was thinking throw some cold tarmac down over the edges but suspect this would eventually break away!

 

[charliegolf]

Try an old fashioned, metal hammer-handle wedge and bang it in with a lump hammer. It's what I've always thought I'd do.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Bang a metal wedge into the gap, if there is one.

 

[charliegolf]

Echo, echo, echo...

 

[Gasguru]

Have you tried fixmystreet ? It's worked for me although it can take months as it's passed around the utilities. Could you get all the neighbours to report it too.

 

[crystal ball]

Try a metal wedge , mate had this problem and he was going to lift the cover and squirt several tubes of mastic around it in the dead of night, council fixed it before he got chance

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Let highways know you saw a cyclist come off when he went over it.

 

[Doug99]

Tell the council that the manhole is actually lifting slightly as cars drive over it. Say you are concerned it may fly up and cause a major accident.
Once informed of a potential danger, they are obliged to investigate.

 

[conny]

I used to drive past a similar one on my way to work. Reported it to local council and a week later nothing had happened. I phoned again and said a cyclist ahead of me,(there wasn't), had swerved to avoid it and narrowly missed being hit by my car, (as he didn't exist this was a fabrication), as I was about to pass him.
That night on the way home the workers were just packing their gear away after repairing it.

 

[^woody^]

The cover will be the responsibility of the utility service that owns it - water company if it's a sewer. Contact them.

Alternatively (or in the same email as above), contact the council's environmental health dept rather than highways dept and allege statutory nuisance from the noise.

 

[Munroast]

stick a cone on top of it

 

[cdbe]

I know tree fellas with a transit tipper who can remove that for you, no questions asked.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

wait until the small hours and fill the gap around it with expanding foam. then sit in your window and laugh.