Quick question - how much 'building' work to install cable?

SideWinder

SideWinder

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There are cable 'trench' marks on my road and other houses 10m or so down from my house have grey boxes outside their properties.

So i was wondering how much 'building' work is actually done to connect the cable to the house? It is a rented property and i need to know as much as possible about the building side/install side of things so i can persuade the landlady to let me have it. :o
 
You sure it isn't FibreCity?

I recall they have been digging up roads in a few towns/cities and laying their cables. They have a grey wall entry box whereas VM have a white one.
 
I'm not sure what cities they are in, some up North and Bournemouth...which is how I know, else I'd have not mentioned it. May well be VM cable with different wall entry boxes. :)
 
Dig a small trench in the garden and fit a green tube thats a little bigger than a hose pipe, thread the cable through that to the box they install on the outside similar to your neighbours.

Then they drill a hole and cable from the outer box to a terminating one inside where the phone/tv and bb plugs in.

There really is nothing to it.
 
In terms of the property...small channel through garden/front tarmac to the house, wall box fitted, fibre (if fibrecity) or cable run through to the box, hole through the wall into the property to modem.
 
Only few contractors can work in the highway, you can't dig up an adopted road yourself, you'll have to get someone to do it, it'll be circa £400-500 on the basis that instaling a drop kerb for prking is £800 - £1000

That'll be your biggest problem, taking it from the boundary into the house is simple, either run another duct in the ground or you could run some couduit along a wall

Why wasn't your property connected, the cable company could give you a cost to do all of it if you sign up with them, just geting to the cable doesn't mean you'll get connected, do you know who owns the cables?
 
What? Cable has been laid (laine ? :S) down the street, all he has to have is it connected, this would be ~£50-£100 fee from VM or FibreCity.
 
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