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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...
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.
Titanium You will want it on the side where tell entrance is now or your fiber entrance is on other side of house. You will have to wire a new network for your self with 120 plugs for ont and battery backup for phone. Standard phones (plug in wall ) will not work power outage. Hand held phones will not work at all because base station is plugged into 120 outlet.
