The engineer that's designing the foundation for our new garage has mentioned that we should check if there's any water, electricity, or fibre in the ground before we dig. Seems prudent, but I think that any third party cables/pipes would have come up on the searches when we bought the house?
This engineer is in fact a commercial engineer who designs piles etc for large structures. He's doing our foundation design as a favour and he's never done anything domestic before, so maybe this isn't standard practice.
Who do we actually call? Thames water, sure. But there must be dozens of electricity companies, or is there a national one that is responsible for all cables? He also mentioned fibre... who do we contact to see if there's any fibre cables?
I do recall that the solicitor checked if there's any third party cables on our land when we bough the house so maybe this is not necessary?
This engineer is in fact a commercial engineer who designs piles etc for large structures. He's doing our foundation design as a favour and he's never done anything domestic before, so maybe this isn't standard practice.
Who do we actually call? Thames water, sure. But there must be dozens of electricity companies, or is there a national one that is responsible for all cables? He also mentioned fibre... who do we contact to see if there's any fibre cables?
I do recall that the solicitor checked if there's any third party cables on our land when we bough the house so maybe this is not necessary?