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Fibre drilling and termination box locations
Telus is installing underground fibre in my area, all the homes have underground utilities and all homes face the street head on. The homes all have from left to right (coming from the under ground...
NFtoBC
Community Power User
Community Power UserAt my house, they just pulled the fibre through the existing conduit instead of the old phone line.
Titanium kamak NFtoBC Same at my place used existing conduit used old copper wire as a pull string and pulled fiber in. Only change was the box on side of house a little bigger with extra fiber coiled up inside for possible repairs later. fiber entered where the old copper wire entered. no new holes.
- I would have thought that my home back in the pre2000s they would have been smart enough to put a conduit pipe. However this is not the case. Confirmed by my neighbor who used to install cable TV. The copper phones wires are just in a thick half inch black outdoor rubber jacket, burried direct in the dirt, no conduit, the plastic "conduit" pipe from the ground level to the box is only a riser, but it's not continuous once it touches a few inches into the ground.
I wonder if I can dig around this riser pipe, and then have them bring the fiber up to it, and then snake the fiber into this phone riser conduit.Titanium If you get the all the utilitys located it called (one call ) i think. It should be a free service but you will have a wait time. The tell wire along with cable company will be approx between 1 to 2 feet down. Using the paint marks do not use shovel directly over line instead dig from the side an once you expose the wire work your way out to the service box. The power should be at 3 feet with tel and cable above 2 feet ?. Remark the paint marks rain will erase them quickly. Be slow and carefull no digging bars or axes. It make a mess but what can you do. Work your way down to cable carefully once found it will be easy.
