Digging Around Services

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I have just scanned the area around where i plan to dig footings this weekend and it looks like i have found the water gas and power runs and they are roughly where i expected them to be. The power and gas are slightly closer to one of the runs of footings and without exposing them may run where i want the footing to be. This particular footing can be moved over slightly as it is the wall between the garage and house (not if it doesnt need to be though. Can a footing be shuttered and poured right next to a power cable?

I had hoped the power and gas would also run underneath the garage door where no footing is planned but again they may now run just under the garage wall. In this instance can they be built over with a lintel?

Literally 1ft too far over. I had assumed they would have come straight out of the garage but they seem to kick over slightly.

How is best to approach this?

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I am hoping the gas will just miss it. The power looks likely to be more of the problem. Can they be pursuaded to move a little if needed or is that a no no?

The water seems to run from the meter to the house feed almost directly. The gas runs to where they dug up the road a while back for a new gas main down the road and the power runs to a marking on the pavement almost to the cm. The marking is "AB". Does that mean anything?

So get the excavator to stop 300-400mm away and then hand dig?
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The new wall is going inline with the existing. Would they normally run power gas under the foundations into the garage or more likely squeeze in just past the pier to the garage wall?
 
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If you can sleeve/stretch water and electric out of the way that's fine, as above the gas is the one you need to be careful with - you're not supposed to build over gas pipes, especially plastic.
 
I assume the groundworker will know far more than me when he turns u tomorrow. I was starting to panic.
 
First of all can i say thanks to the help given last night. I was having a bit of a wobble up with this being the 1st time i have done footings like this.

It turns out i just about got away with it. We located the gas and power roughly where the scanner had said. Their location has meant the footing has had to be moved by approximately 50-100mm from the original planned location. I hope this will be even less of a problem if i offset the wall above from center slightly to bearing it close to where it was intended to be before shifting the footing slightly.

We found the power and gas sat on top of each other and out the way of the footing. We then found what looked like a 2nd power cable lower down that kicks in slightly as shown in the pictures below. Can i just shutter up against the pipes and pour the footings keeping them outside the concrete line? Will building control be fused about this?

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Just spoke to Southern Gas adn asked if they wanted to replace the old metal whilst the driveway is up and they didn't seem to bothered. They assume that when the new main was laid in the road a few months back that they have "lined" my pipe but couldn't confirm. Seems a bit suspect to me.

BCO just came out and said i am good to go with the concrete. How shall i deal with this - Just shutter up against the services and pour away. That way they are not enclosed but sat alongside the footing? Still not sure what teh 2nd lower power cable is and if it can just be enclosed with concrete.

As i need to sit the pier for one side of teh garage opening right above the services, the guy who dug my footings suggested linteling over the services from one side of the garage door to the other (or digging a small pad the other side to pick up a smaller lintel). What do you think of that - The lintel will only be picking up the pier.
 

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