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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.
Well they have to bring fiber to your house at their cost, I assume, so they definitely have to put it in conduit, if it's brought via in-ground (or do they have a heavy duty fiber line that doesn't require conduit?) otherwise it'll be overhead. They also have to bring two lines, they always do, as a backup secondary replacement or as a double line. They will/can bring that new conduit to your existing "riser" conduit. Either replace (most likely) and snake it through the existing ethernet hole.
You have no overhead lines coming to your home now? Not even an old or existing coax cable. Does your house even have coax cable feed from the pole? Is it in conduit?
- There are zero poles in my community. Everything is underground. Shaws CATV cable comes up in a pipe behind the Tel box and enters the wall without a there being any CATV box. If this CATV pipe continues in the dirt, unknown need to dig to check. However the CATV goes to a different hub and is not the same hub where Tel is (I've seen the inside of the big Tel lawn box before when a neighbor car hit it and it was wide open for weeks, it only contains tel wires (Cat5) inside, no Coax)
Titanium It all goes back to how cheap the subdivision owner was he didn't want to pay for pipe and labour just throw the wire in the trench. It is coming back to haunt the homeowners now.. You might be able to do your own trench but get every thing located. If you do follow the tel wire both power and tel should be in same trench. Power and tel are never to be in same trench as gas. And of course tel does not want to hand dig you would pay $100 an hour for shure.
- I see, so in this case they will probably not put it on the gas side and be forced to put it on the Tel side. You are very correct in your comment about, save a dollar back then and now a headache today, conduit isn't even expensive.
