re: A new internet company is going to dig up my beautiful yard to lay their cables

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they never asked permission to spray paint yellow, orange, red and blue lines all over my yard

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yellow, orange, red and blue

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red and blue

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You fricking animal!!!!!!

It’s red, and blue

I will die on this hill with the Oxford comma.

We have to have standards to maintain a functioning society.

Go get yourself a couple of pitbulls and leave them outside.

In all seriousness, we had a company named Tachus who laid fiber optic cable all over kingwood a couple of years ago and it’s been an absolute godsend, we used to have suddenlink for our Internet and it was total dog shite

Comcast laid fiber last year and they were accused of sabotage, it seemed like twice a week that our Mega-reliable fiber was going down while the Comcast crews were “assessing” how they’re going to lay their fiber.

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they never asked permission to spray paint yellow, orange, red and blue lines all over my yard and next, they’ve never asked permission to dig up my yard to do this.

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Technically, the easement is not just your yard. Also, they are marking the utilities.

Fiber optic came to our neighborhood recently and they spray painted, but used underground tunneling and only dug holes where hubs would be located.

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quit crying like a girl.
they’ll directional bore the conduit then pull the fiber; the only digging will be at the ends of each bore

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Not necessarily, in my neighborhood, the used a combination of horizontal boring and good ol' fashioned hand trenching. With the lack of "guest workers" maybe the hand trenching option has gone away.

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Is there anything I can do about this?

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I don't know why I didn't think about this.
If you can find out where they are digging, why not remove the grass with a sharp shovel or sod cutter, preserve it, and add it back after they are done...

This happened to me and they "fixed" my yard by throwing grass seed down after, which was the wrong type of fescue. They didn't level it, so my yard still had a deep depression line across it.

I raised a lot of hell because it fricked up the natural drainage slope of my lawn and eventually they came out and threw more dirt down and gave me $200 for grass seed. I sat out there in my 4-wheeler rolling over the dirt as they dumped it to compress it and kept getting them to pour more. They were pissed.

I know they had the right, but they did not "make commercially reasonable efforts to repair the property to it's prior state" which is part of the deal.

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We have a ton of sub-surface stone in my area (East TN) and they basically dug a ditch 1-2 ft deep in my front yard. Then "filled it", but didn't roll over it and it compressed or washed away in the next rain (included the shitty grass seed).

They are in the right-of-way/servitude.

And yes, you are crying like a little girl.

So I shouldn’t complain that they filled it in with cheap Home Depot sod that is completely different than my main grass?

Call your city code enforcement and permitting board. If you happen to live in a respectable suburb, they should pressure the utility into proper restoration. If not, you’re out of luck.