Hi - if anyone has any thought on this it would be appreciated! A water company has just replaced the pipe in our road to increase the pressure to the houses. They were using a digger right up to our front gate - the digger has managed to crack the concrete front step and gate post! Whilst this work was going on a water leak appeared approx 3 feet inside the front gate, the pressure of which means the water is coming out of the wall about a foot off the ground.
To me it seems obvious this has been caused by the work done. However, when the foreman came to see it he insists it's coincidence and our old lead pipe must have spontaneously ruptured. He says that because the leak has appeared so far within our gate, it can't have been caused by their work.
I would have thought that any work violent enough to crack our concrete step and gate post could easily have broken a pipe in the property and/or that water could being 'pushed' in and even though the crack might be nearer the gate.
Please - any thoughts??
To me it seems obvious this has been caused by the work done. However, when the foreman came to see it he insists it's coincidence and our old lead pipe must have spontaneously ruptured. He says that because the leak has appeared so far within our gate, it can't have been caused by their work.
I would have thought that any work violent enough to crack our concrete step and gate post could easily have broken a pipe in the property and/or that water could being 'pushed' in and even though the crack might be nearer the gate.
Please - any thoughts??
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