Generator Upland Road

[5imon]

Hi

Before i knock on doors, does anyone know anything about the generator outside the flats on Upland Road, 3 or 4 doors up from the junction with LL (library end)? Sure it's there for a good reason. It just sounds like an idling lorry at night, so wondering how long we have to put up with it.

Thanks

[Rockets]

It may well be a power outage of some kind - does it have any electricity company branding on it?

We had a powercut in the depths of winter once and the engineers turned up at about 10.30pm and determined they needed to dig up the road to fix it and said you have two options 1) we start digging now through the night or 2) you have a generator.

Being a considerate neighbour we went for the generator - little did we know that once you take the generator you drop to the bottom of the engineer priority list so we had what sounded like the old InterCity 125 chugging out diesel fumes for 2 days before they came to fix the issue.

[5imon]

No it's a commercial hire generator. The flats have recently had some work done so maybe they're waiting for reconnection to the mains. That was 2 weeks ago though, so it's been there for a while.

[Lowlander]

Still going...no lights on inside right now and at ?150 - ?200 a week generator hire this is a serious operation

[Angelina]

It?s been there for much longer than two weeks. No sign of any workmen. I?d knock on doors if it bothered me.