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Warrants must happen fast on your side of the world
Wow. I'm lost for words.
I feel like I'd be having a conversation with them at some point...
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The electric thing happened to me too actually. Toledo Edison sent someone to my rental to investigate the sudden 900% increase in usage.
Turned out the new roommate had a massive electric space heater running 24/7 in his bedroom with the windows open in the middle of the winter so he could smoke cigs inside...
Damn bro, thats screwed up. I would make them miserable, sucks about the tree too. I would drag out them tearing the lines out as long as possible. Our last house I lived in didnt have any gas lines. Heat pump(i think its called) for the furnace which sucked ass in really cold weather. Electric hot water heater, stove, dryer ect.
go all smelly hippy and chain yourself up in the tree...lol
or tell them you're 1/264 cherokee and your ancestors spirits live in the tree.
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So after a very polite conversation (no sarcasm) with Columbia Gas today, they are going to dig up and cap their line at the street only. Since I have the original hard iron lines installed in the 1940's, the logistics of them trying to remove them without damaging the tree or my house would be a nightmare and they are not going to attempt it.
I guess that's a compromise. I'd sit in the front of the house and watch them just to piss them off.
Update...
Got a letter in July from Columbia Gas saying they need to come in and inspect my interior gas lines despite not being their customer and not having had gas for 2 years! I just laughed and ignored it.
Then in August they sent out a guy to try to schedule a time to inspect my lines. I told him I wasn't a customer and I have no gas appliances and that the service has been shut off at the street for 2 years. This guy said "well we'll just dig up your lines then"
Yesterday they came out and spray painted lines in my yard and sidewalk. As soon as it got dark I went and stripped the paint from the sidewalk and grass and rubbed some dirt around. Then parked my truck at the curb. Looks like they were never there.
An hour ago the water company came out and looked stupid for an hour with a metal detector thingy before marking just their cap, no lines, and left.
Bout to get interesting 'round here.
Better wrap some chains around that tree.
Plant dummy landmines... Install fire ants... Chain a "nice" dog to that tree.... 1 Indian arrowhead is enough to bring multi-million $ projects to a halt...
Part of my plan when they come is to hook my pitbulls up the tree and sit out there in a lawn chair and play on my phone.
They aren't going to cut it down though, they are going to remove their pipe that is directly under it. That could damage the roots and kill it a year down the road when they can deny liability.
The good news is someone ****ed up. The City water line runs directly below their gas line. All I know is where the city marked their "do not dig" zone is exactly where the gas line was marked.
IDask for pics but you are not supposed to document these kind of activities, dang!
take pics anyways.
So the little guy wins. Sort of. In many of the streets in my neighborhood, the gas company has been digging up the street and relocating everyone's meters outside due to safety regulations. It makes Columbia Gas responsible for everything except for your actual appliances.
Apparently I've been holding up the whole project on my street because they need access to my basement to make sure THEIR main line isn't leaking past THEIR valves at the street, because if it is THEY would be responsible if my house blew up from a gas leak.
So I called and talked to them and enrolled in Gas service despite having Zero gas utilities. For the $25 a month fee to have service, I won't have to pay a dime to have new gas lines installed. They sent out a guy this morning who knew exactly what I meant about the last **** turning random knobs and had a nice opinion about how corporate was sending low paid idiot grunts to do checks instead of certified people just to save a buck.
He confirmed that yes, their line between my meter and street was leaking somewhere causing a discrepancy and should have been caught long before they had a pissed off customer, and that they will simply cap the line that runs under the tree at my inside basement wall and at the street and just leave the line alone.
They are coming back tomorrow to figure out with me where to run a new line and meter at the outside, and presumably where it can't affect the tree.