Blue paint NEGATED

Some time earlier today an assortment of blue paint marks appeared on the footways in my road- I didn't see them being made or who by (wrong side of the house) so I'm posting a piccie in this forum to see if someone can confirm they might be what I hope they are

Link (Dropbox, just dismiss any popups)

TIA for any info.

Never mind... a couple of guys turned up with one of those GPS-on-a-stick gadgets, so I asked... the local leccy board are putting in a new cable. Not too disappointed, the reliability of the one that's there isn't brilliant.

Edited by billford (Wed 13-Nov-24 13:20:51)

What’s the green post on the right hand side of your photo?

Base of a lamp post. (eta- The old sodiums were all changed to LED earlier this year.)

The asphalt strip crossing the road in the top left corner is a Virgin cable to the house opposite, it's been there for some years.

Edited by billford (Wed 13-Nov-24 13:18:58)

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Never mind... a couple of guys turned up with one of those GPS-on-a-stick gadgets, so I asked... the local leccy board are putting in a new cable. Not too disappointed, the reliability of the one that's there isn't brilliant.

Mmmm suspected it may be something like that, hence my question about the pole in the photo.

Just have to hope that, while they're at it, they don't put a digger through a BT cable

Blue is usually Water.

Electricity Red.

Gas Yellow

However, the marking up colour can also be a warning that a particular utility is beneath - a sort of don't dig here...

Cheers!

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

Blue is usually Water.

Electricity Red.

Gas Yellow

However, the marking up colour can also be a warning that a particular utility is beneath - a sort of don't dig here...

Cheers!

Thanks for clearing that up, before our village got fttp, there was lots of blue markings near poles and trees, i though (obviously incorrectly) they had something to do with OR

They usually spray it up in white or yellow around here.

Actual services / duct colours are as you say + green (for cable / virgin / some altnets) or purple (orange if you’re in scotland)

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

Blue is usually Water.

Electricity Red.

Gas Yellow

However, the marking up colour can also be a warning that a particular utility is beneath - a sort of don't dig here...

Cheers!

Pretty sure these aren't for water, they don't go anywhere near the inspection covers where the meters live... and for various reasons, electricity makes more sense. Maybe they ran out of red paint!

Our local teams appear to use white for everything from road surfacing to digging. Unless its Southern Gas Networks (SGN) whom just litter the town in herras plastic fencing!

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In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

Blue is usually Water.

Electricity Red.

Gas Yellow

However, the marking up colour can also be a warning that a particular utility is beneath - a sort of don't dig here...

Cheers!

Thanks for clearing that up, before our village got fttp, there was lots of blue markings near poles and trees, i though (obviously incorrectly) they had something to do with OR

Before OR installed fibre round here all the affected chamber lids were numbered using blue paint. (Because City Fibre's contractors had already been round and cleared the blockages a couple of years ago in this case there was no need for OR to install any new ducts.)

You're almost right. What appears to be yellow paint is actually a magic transparent road repair. See a whopping great pothole, spray a magic yellow circle around it, and hey presto! the road's as good as new again. Myself, I'm working on a similar magic spray to fix my car's suspension.

I found some photos from 2021 (last time G.network chopped up the roads and footpaths) and indeed they also used blue paint to mark out their new chamber locations.