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Noisy manhole cover

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:21pm
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Can anyone offer any advice? We have a manhole cover in the road outside of our property. We think it is a Hidraqua.  It is driving us crazy as every time a car goes over it sounds like a drum.  We have tried the online complaints form to no avail.  Has anyone else suffered this problem And if so did you manage to get anyone to resolve the matter.  Thank you for reading my problem. 

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:27pm

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:27pm

Just about every manhole you see seems to have had rubber or something under it put there by locals to stop it rattling with traffic which doesn't bode well for getting anybody to do anything about it officially. 

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:06pm

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:06pm

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Me too, I saw them replacing them! (only around here they are "silver-lining!") or was that a sliver lining?

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:52pm

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:52pm

Villas wrote on Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:06pm:

Me too, I saw them replacing them! (only around here they are "silver-lining!") or was that a sliver lining?

That sounds like a good idea, but how do I get someone to fix a rubber lining.  Don't really know who is responsible.  Road all breaking up around it.  The road is too busy  for us to try anything.  Thank you all for your comments.

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:47am

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:47am

Tanya123 wrote on Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:52pm:

That sounds like a good idea, but how do I get someone to fix a rubber lining.  Don't really know who is responsible.  Road all breaking up around it.  The road is too busy  for us to try anything.  Thank you all for your comments.

Hi, noise aside, if the road is "breaking" up, & if there is a danger to traffic etc, it would be prudent to inform local police & town hall. As an alternative: 

Years ago in our ayuntamiento (concerning a particular road) was, through a denuncia by the Guardia Civil, taken to the court & forced reparation.

Villas 

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:28am

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:28am

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or at least, "looking into it"

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:28am

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:28am

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So the Spanish Council workers are the same as the British and Irish, one man does the work while six or seven stand around and supervise the project, some things never change.

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 2:38pm

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 2:38pm

A piece of carpet is often used around our area in Quesada .!!!!

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:17pm

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:17pm

Under it ..!!

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 4:12pm

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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 4:12pm

camionpilot wrote on Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:17pm:

Under it ..!!

No surely, under-felt first, then man,..... then Axminster? no?

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