Anyone know?

In our front yard our water meter has been leaking like a bastard. I called the City of Raleigh utilities and a dude came out and said they were not responsible for fixing it because both the meter and the pipe on 'the city's side' were fine....

I'm used to plumbers working inside jobs, who do you call to actually find and repair a leak in a pipe buried in the yard? sounds difficult.

Referrals also welcome. :

7/1/2009 10:21:09 AM

Bolton Service

861-1500

7/1/2009 10:26:35 AM

Most plumbers should be able to tackle that job.

7/1/2009 11:36:40 AM

an idiot with the phone company cut a water line while installing a phone line down one of our farm driveways. we just dug up the line and patched it with a telescoping union. It wasn't hard at all.

7/1/2009 12:05:59 PM

PM Sent

7/1/2009 1:17:22 PM

Not worth a new thread, so I'm just attaching this to the most recent thread related to water and Raleigh...


I was skimming the Wednesday (7/1/9) N&O and noticed that Raleigh has a new fee:

Quote :

"New charge for having the city reread your water meter: $35"

So basically expect the city to "misread" a lot of meters so they can charge you $35 to come back out and reread it. IMO they should only fine you if you call them out and they were not at fault. Ie they actually read the meter correctly the first time. If they were at fault, I don't see how they can get away with charging the fee. Anything other than that is highly suspect.

Maybe that's how it is. They didn't get any more detailed than that in the news blurb.

[Edited on July 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM. Reason : -]

7/2/2009 1:23:43 PM

^I believe that's what it is, they have a liability to properly read your meter. I know a lot of cities will test your electric meter for proper functioning and will charge you around $50 if it's not out of spec.

7/2/2009 3:52:48 PM