Reinstatement
Reinstating your garden, footpath or driveway
Repairing or renewing gas pipes inevitably involves some digging. Where possible we try to restrict this work to public areas but sometimes we have no choice but to dig small holes in driveways or footpaths in people’s gardens.
For planned work, we always tell householders in advance if we need to do this.
If we dig on your property we will always reinstate the area we have disturbed to a good standard as set out in schedule 2B of the Gas Act 1986 (as amended). However, we cannot agree to reinstate an area we did not disturb.
When reinstating your driveway or footpath we will match the original material i.e. concrete for concrete, tarmac for tarmac.
Although we will do our best to replicate the colour and texture of the existing area it is virtually impossible to match it exactly. This is usually due to the age, weathering and general wear and tear of the original surface.
Colour matching usually improves as the new surface weathers.
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