Garden Dug Up and Cable installed on my property without knowledge - Page 10

26-01-2012, 20:16

And start taking some photos to document it for evidence.

weenie · 23-12-2013, 01:51

virgin media cable in my garden and it is for my neighbours service Virgin media came out to remove the cable three times and my neighbour gave three different reasons to why she wanted to stay in my garden 1st being that she wanted the service but wanted the cable to remain in my garden 2nd reasons is that she wanted VM to promise that they would not cut through any other cable in her garden to which VM could not guarantee the 3rd and wait for this she then told VM that it was her land. Two field managers came out to see me and i proved the land was mine but they said they would not be moving it and now i have to pay a lawyer to send a copy of the deeds to their legal team why should i have to pay when i have proved to there field manager the land is mine!!! so angry at VM....why do they not ask my neighbour for prove that the land is her's i will be sending them a letter from my lawyer and i will be claiming my loss from them as i have proved the land is mine as after all TITLE DEEDS PROVE THE LAND IS MINE so what is there problem Did i say in my opinion VM took the easy way to route the cable as my neighbours garden is full of trees i mean big leylandii trees, where as my garden is soil why does VM do this as only the owner of a property can give them permission.

23-12-2013, 05:00

shove a spade through it "accidentally"

**Hugh** · 23-12-2013, 10:51

That's the Christmas spirit....

insulatorpotty · 23-12-2013, 15:53

chop it out asap. see this all the time. the standard of cable laying/ fixing/ termination at most customer premises by virgin 'contractors/employees is friggin shocking. and that is the reason i will not have virgin tv installed at my property.

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Originally Posted by weenie

virgin media cable in my garden and it is for my neighbours service Virgin media came out to remove the cable three times and my neighbour gave three different reasons to why she wanted to stay in my garden 1st being that she wanted the service but wanted the cable to remain in my garden 2nd reasons is that she wanted VM to promise that they would not cut through any other cable in her garden to which VM could not guarantee the 3rd and wait for this she then told VM that it was her land. Two field managers came out to see me and i proved the land was mine but they said they would not be moving it and now i have to pay a lawyer to send a copy of the deeds to their legal team why should i have to pay when i have proved to there field manager the land is mine!!! so angry at VM....why do they not ask my neighbour for prove that the land is her's i will be sending them a letter from my lawyer and i will be claiming my loss from them as i have proved the land is mine as after all TITLE DEEDS PROVE THE LAND IS MINE so what is there problem Did i say in my opinion VM took the easy way to route the cable as my neighbours garden is full of trees i mean big leylandii trees, where as my garden is soil why does VM do this as only the owner of a property can give them permission.

you should have just chopped it out. then refused access when the repair team turned up. you will win in court anyway but it would have saved a lot of stress and effort on your part.

23-12-2013, 18:11

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Originally Posted by Hugh

That's the Christmas spirit....

well the neighbour and VM appear to have shown no respect so none is earnt

RB2004 · 23-12-2013, 18:29

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Originally Posted by insulatorpotty

chop it out asap. see this all the time. the standard of cable laying/ fixing/ termination at most customer premises by virgin 'contractors/employees is friggin shocking. and that is the reason i will not have virgin tv installed at my property.

---------- Post added at 15:53 ---------- Previous post was at 15:51 ----------

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Originally Posted by weenie

virgin media cable in my garden and it is for my neighbours service Virgin media came out to remove the cable three times and my neighbour gave three different reasons to why she wanted to stay in my garden 1st being that she wanted the service but wanted the cable to remain in my garden 2nd reasons is that she wanted VM to promise that they would not cut through any other cable in her garden to which VM could not guarantee the 3rd and wait for this she then told VM that it was her land. Two field managers came out to see me and i proved the land was mine but they said they would not be moving it and now i have to pay a lawyer to send a copy of the deeds to their legal team why should i have to pay when i have proved to there field manager the land is mine!!! so angry at VM....why do they not ask my neighbour for prove that the land is her's i will be sending them a letter from my lawyer and i will be claiming my loss from them as i have proved the land is mine as after all TITLE DEEDS PROVE THE LAND IS MINE so what is there problem Did i say in my opinion VM took the easy way to route the cable as my neighbours garden is full of trees i mean big leylandii trees, where as my garden is soil why does VM do this as only the owner of a property can give them permission.

you should have just chopped it out. then refused access when the repair team turned up. you will win in court anyway but it would have saved a lot of stress and effort on your part.

Yep that's why I buried my own cable.

Team 1 came and installed the cable, but left it coiled up.

I dug my lawn and buried it 12" deep.

Team 2 came to finish the job,
But job had already been done.

They even admitted to me they would only bury it 6" but previous experiences suggest I would be lucky if it was buried 4".

qasdfdsaq · 23-12-2013, 18:54

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Originally Posted by Hugh

That's the Christmas spirit....

Bah humbug.

Chop up the cable and wrap it up in a christmas wrapper?

weenie · 23-12-2013, 22:19

getting boundary survey and sending it to their legal team and i will bill Virgin Media for the expense as i have proved it is my land by producing title deeds but a boundary survey then it is so detailed there will be no misunderstanding about who owns the land ..... the survey is getting done on the 9th of January 2014 oh happy days....

Nidge41 · 28-12-2013, 07:11

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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

shove a spade through it "accidentally"

That would be my response.

**Hugh** · 28-12-2013, 09:07

Wow!

The poster has not said any damage to his property was caused (besides his/her understandable annoyance), and yet these sort of responses are given.

Let's hope you never park your car causing someone inconvenience, and the person doesn't share your attitude....

28-12-2013, 09:31

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Wow!

The poster has not said any damage to his property was caused (besides his/her understandable annoyance), and yet these sort of responses are given.

Let's hope you never park your car causing someone inconvenience, and the person doesn't share your attitude....

it is the attitude of the neighbour and VM nothing to do with damage to the garden.

If your usual none relevant analogy was to happen and the person was to say please could you move your car and the other said person was to have an attitude after being asked then it may work.............................................. .................................................

weenie · 28-12-2013, 10:56

As to Hugh comments It is my land and it is above the ground i wanted to mono block my front garden so i requested VM remove their cable from my property because if their was ever a fault they would not ruin my garden as they have quoted to us if there was ever a fault with that cable they would have to dig up where the cable lies in MY Garden to fix it. Ask yourself this Hugh would you like to have a garden people are using for sevice you are not getting then be told if you ever were to do hard landscape to it and you paid good monies to make your garden look quite nice VM dug it all up to repair the fault for services you are not getting but neighbour is... oh by the way neighbour has been told that the cable should be in her garden but guess what YIP she wants it to remain in quote In The Neighbours Ground Her words to VM field manager. I just thought prevention was better than cure. This neighbour does not get on with anyone in the estate cos of their selfish attitude hope you never get a neighbour like this bet you would be like me and really angry at their arrogant attitude. I really do hope you never experience this Hugh as i would not wish this on my worst enemy... Or would let someone put a sattelite dish on your home or VM cables in your garden to supply your neighbour if so hats of to you man..

Hom3r · 28-12-2013, 17:29

I have a neighbour who takes pride in his garden his front lawn could be used on a golf green.

He would be miffed if it was dug up.

Personally I would dig it up and dump it on his lawn, no criminal damage as it was placed on my property without my express permission signed on paper.

I would first sen VM a letter stating that unless they removed said cable from my property withing x number of days I would remove it and bill them for doing so.

MovedGoalPosts · 28-12-2013, 18:44

It seems absurd that you need to get a boundary survey? If that is the case then there has probably already been a lot of legal correspondence so that the alleged trespass of the cable over your garden is not that clear cut. If it were clear cut then, regardless of the attitude of VM's field managers, who you indicate accept there is a problem, the legals would have told them to remove it.

So has there in fact been any formal written notice, ideally recorded delivery, so VM's legals do know there is a dispute?