Does getting Fibre means they dig up your drive/front garden?

TangoEchoAlpha said:
@Raymond Lin I have Zzoomm installed. You are looking for a plastic cover where the pavement meets your property boundary, that is labelled Zzoomm. I would take a photo of the one outside our house, but it's dark - but you are looking for a plastic cover about 3" x 8"

The installers will then run a line from that point to your property. In my case, they took up some block paving on the very edge of the driveway and laid the cable underneath that. What they will do depends upon where the point external to your boundary is, so find that and you can then guess the route the installers will run the cable.

If the property isn't yours, you will need to sign and give permission for the works to start - if it's a rental, as mentioned you will need the way leave sorted.
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I can't see a box, there isn't one.

I don't see problems running the cable on the front "garden", it's only gravel anyway, best place is probably tuck it alongside the slabs. underneath some gravel.
 
@Raymond Lin

Here's a photo of what I mean, you will have an access cover like this at the edge of the pavement/your property:

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The installers then lifted a straight run of the block driveway paving and took the cable under that to the edge of our house.
 
TangoEchoAlpha said:
@Raymond Lin

Here's a photo of what I mean, you will have an access cover like this at the edge of the pavement/your property:

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The installers then lifted a straight run of the block driveway paving and took the cable under that to the edge of our house.
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Are these boxes on the "line" where they dug? or if not, where can they be? I need to look again, I don't recall seeing any new trap doors on the ground.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Are these boxes on the "line" where they dug? or if not, where can they be? I need to look again, I don't recall seeing any new trap doors on the ground.
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Yes. You have the line running along the pavement, then a short section coming off that line, 'terminated' as it were by the access cover. All ZZoomm have done so far is likely run cable from the edge of your property to the nearest cabinet. If you don't have that, they might not have finished works in your area yet.
 
TangoEchoAlpha said:
Yes. You have the line running along the pavement, then a short section coming off that line, 'terminated' as it were by the access cover. All ZZoomm have done so far is likely run cable from the edge of your property to the nearest cabinet. If you don't have that, they might not have finished works in your area yet.
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I'll take some more photos along the line after work. I am pretty sure they are done, all the roadwork stuff are gone and I have a postcard through the door from Zzoomm telling me they are now in the area. The website too says i can order.
 
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I haven't had Zzoom but had fibre cables put in last year by Lila Connect. I'll take a photo of mine and where it goes. All depends on how good the installer is.
 
they did at my house when i got FTTP but they did a good job of putting my property back together afterwards

i cant remember them doing that for others around me though
 
TangoEchoAlpha said:
@Raymond Lin

Here's a photo of what I mean, you will have an access cover like this at the edge of the pavement/your property:

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The installers then lifted a straight run of the block driveway paving and took the cable under that to the edge of our house.
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I was looking for the wrong “box”, I was looking for a small black plastic lid but instead…..


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It’s quite far from my front door though.

The photo below I am standing outside my house.

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That chamber has been put there to link up to the BT network that is next to it, they are likely going to use the BT duct that comes up on the outside of your house.
 
Caged said:
That chamber has been put there to link up to the BT network that is next to it, they are likely going to use the BT duct that comes up on the outside of your house.
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That makes sense - we don't have full fibre here yet, Openreach haven't done the works. I can only guess Zzoomm don't want to use the copper cable ducting from BT and have gone for a different solution in our area.
 
If the BT cable is direct buried then there is no duct to put it in. Some providers also will dig if it's easy to avoid having to pay Openreach to use their ducts, or if the network is on poles and they don't want to have to deal with having their engineers climbing up things.
 
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