plunet
ULTIMATE Member
Hello, I'm about to push the button on an FTTP install. My property is in a road primarily served by overhead wires but historically my property was served by an underground cable. There's no duct and I've already verbally confirmed with a OR engineer who was doing a survey recently that if I wish to have FTTP it will be overhead. My Openreach copper line has not been active for over 14 years and there's actually no internal master socket or cabling, it just ends at the junction box at low level on the front wall.
I know that a "standard" proceedure will be run the overhead to the eves, run the cable down the external wall to a mutually agreed place to drill through where the ONT needs to go near a power socket and usually near where the old copper master socket was.
My existing VirginMedia service (broadband only) is in the loft along with all the Cat5e that I have installed around the house. Access to the loft is via a sensible size crawl-through hatch from a loft conversion room (no ladder) and the area where the engineer needs to work is boarded out and although height resrticted is quite safe to work sitting on a small stool. I would be happy to crawl over an unboarded area with the fibre glass insulation to the area of eves where the cable would probably come in and put a drawstring or cable in place in advance so the engineer can use this to pull their new cable through to the boarded out area in front of the access hatch.
What are the chances that I can pursuade the engineer from Openreach to install the ONT in my loft if I provide them a drawstring and a safe working area? Does anyone have any idea what the Openreach rules around this? Thanks
I know that a "standard" proceedure will be run the overhead to the eves, run the cable down the external wall to a mutually agreed place to drill through where the ONT needs to go near a power socket and usually near where the old copper master socket was.
My existing VirginMedia service (broadband only) is in the loft along with all the Cat5e that I have installed around the house. Access to the loft is via a sensible size crawl-through hatch from a loft conversion room (no ladder) and the area where the engineer needs to work is boarded out and although height resrticted is quite safe to work sitting on a small stool. I would be happy to crawl over an unboarded area with the fibre glass insulation to the area of eves where the cable would probably come in and put a drawstring or cable in place in advance so the engineer can use this to pull their new cable through to the boarded out area in front of the access hatch.
What are the chances that I can pursuade the engineer from Openreach to install the ONT in my loft if I provide them a drawstring and a safe working area? Does anyone have any idea what the Openreach rules around this? Thanks