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gruntage's avatar
gruntage
Tuning in
8 months ago

Virgin incorrectly installed box on my property

A couple of days ago my neighbour had a virgin box installed. The issue is after the engineers left she came round to my house to apologise that they had installed it on my property instead (terraced house). She was not there for the installation and upon returning home discovered it was instead put on my wall. I have a very large storage box out the front of my property which clearly identifies it as mine as it separates the gap between our houses, but the engineers have moved this to install the box.

I have called virgin to complain and insist that this is removed immediately, to which I've been informed an engineer will be in touch with my neighbour as soon as they can to remove it. Although I doubt the speed and urgency they will take with this, I have more concern about the damage done ILLEGALLY to my property. Looking through the forum it seems this isn't an isolated event.

I am expecting the box removed, and the damage repaired so that my property is returned back to the state it was on prior. This means more than just filling the holes, and will most likely require a larger piece of work to ensure the wall is uniform and not left with a glaring patch covering their illegal damage.

Depending on how quickly they can resolve this, I may seek further compensation for the stress and time it's taken for me to resolve this.

Does anyone have any experience of this and resolutions?

  • Hi gruntage 

    Thanks for posting and welcome to the community.

    Sorry to hear of the issue of the box being placed on the wrong property.

    I'll send you a PM now to assist further.

  • jbrennand's avatar
    jbrennand
    Very Insightful Person

    Post up a few pics of the installation issues and the damage that needs repairing and a VM person will take a look here in a day or so.

    For background info, has your property got (or had in the past) a VM connection?  If so you or a previous owner will have agreed a "wayleave" agreement that allows VM to install their equipment on your property (albeit not with damage !).

  • -tony-'s avatar
    -tony-
    Alessandro Volta

    expect a lot of huffing and puffing and little else - they will do their best to ignore you and hope you go away - as for compensation that would pretty much be a 1st

    you could remove everything and employ someone to sort out the holes etc and send them the bill - again thats likely to be ignored and you would then end up in the small claims court

    i use an expression

    expect nothing and you wont be disappointed - i think that will apply here

    • Cardiffman282's avatar
      Cardiffman282
      Trouble shooter

      As per Tony. If there is no real progress within a reasonable timeframe I'd rip it out and reinstall it at Griffin House
      161 Hammersmith Road
      Hammersmith
      London
      W6 8BS

  • Hi gruntage 

    Thanks for posting and welcome to the community.

    Sorry to hear of the issue of the box being placed on the wrong property.

    I'll send you a PM now to assist further.

  • Just an update on this for anyone wanting to know how useless virgin are.

     

    The box is still there. I've been in communication via DM with virgin on here as well as repeatedly on the phone (at my effort) and still it remains. There is no urgency. No sense of understanding that they have inconvenienced me. No offer of recompense for the damge, stress and time they have caused both me and my property. Virgin are possibly one of the most useless companies I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with.

    • Carley_S's avatar
      Carley_S
      Forum Team

      Our apologies that this has still not be removed for you gruntage 

      I can see that my colleague has responded to you in private message, so should you've any further questions or concerns. please reach back out to them over your already opened private message and they'll assist further with this. 

      • gruntage's avatar
        gruntage
        Tuning in

        They've reached out.. and yet the box is still there. Virgin are useless. Utterly useless.

  • spell's avatar
    spell
    Knows their stuff

    Make your own arrangements to remove the box and make good the damage. Give it to your neighbour who is aware of the circumstances and try to maintain friendship - VM have no concerns about causing a neighbour feud.

    Bill VM for your costs and persevere. YOU take charge and enjoy making their lives miserable.

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta

    Sorry to hear this, unfortunately it's not unusual for VM to do this and not bother to put it right. 

    If there's anyone that VM cares less about than a customer, it's a non customer. 

  • Update for anyone wondering about how awful VM are.. it's still ongoing.

    • Matthew_ML's avatar
      Matthew_ML
      Forum Team

      I am sorry to hear this.

      I can see you are in PM with my colleague about this, please do feel free to send them another a message for an update.

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta

    Let's be honest. Virginmedia have won this.