Fibre broadband ducting

[Ormond]

All the Fibre laid around here was direct laid, no ducts, I put mine from the road inside a 25mm MDPE water pipe as a duct, pulled a drawcord through approx. 120m with Henry the hoover!

Did BT just supply you with the fibre to pull through yourself? Then they done the connections?

 

[Andy26]

Did BT just supply you with the fibre to pull through yourself? Then they done the connections?

Gigaclear did, exactly that.

I found my cable yesterday!

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Just caught it with the post hole auger, water pipe conduit destroyed but fibre cable survived somehow!

 

[Binc]

Been through the process above and BT have supplied ducting chambers (every 100m, turns etc.) for us to install, about 600m, what the easiest way of installing the draw cord...?

Its 75mm duct roughly, short of dropping a stone tied to the end of the rope for each length is there a better way?

any advice gratefully received!

 

[Highland Mule]

Been through the process above and BT have supplied ducting chambers (every 100m, turns etc.) for us to install, about 600m, what the easiest way of installing the draw cord...?

Its 75mm duct roughly, short of dropping a stone tied to the end of the rope for each length is there a better way?

any advice gratefully received!

Sponge/ plastic bag and a compressor.

 

[CPF]

I tie rope to a ring spanner

 

[Binc]

Sponge/ plastic bag and a compressor.

do you think it would do multiple lengths (from one chamber to the next)?

 

[Highland Mule]

do you think it would do multiple lengths (from one chamber to the next)?

No idea, sorry. Never tried in myself but just know that’s the normal method. Surely you’d just blow it to a chamber and then pull through some spare rope to there before starting the next length?

 

[Binc]

No idea, sorry. Never tried in myself but just know that’s the normal method. Surely you’d just blow it to a chamber and then pull through some spare rope to there before starting the next length?

yes I would think so I wasn't planning on trying to do do more than one chamber at a time!

 

[CPF]

Plus this

highly recommend marking it

 

[sgoti]

Sounds like my style to be honest....I’ve a single leg subsoiler...was thinking of some how using that....time consuming digging with a 12” digger bucket

can i ask why are doing it yourself? shouldn't bt be doing it for free

 

[Courier]

can i ask why are doing it yourself? shouldn't bt be doing it for free

They’ll probably do it for free sometime by the end of the century…but if you want a decent reliable broadband speed then a little help goes a long way towards getting it done a bit sooner

 

[Ormond]

can i ask why are doing it yourself? shouldn't bt be doing it for free

Spoke with an an engineer yesterday and they are going dig the duct in , next to the exsisting phone line cable. The last 50m across the yard is ducted so they’ll tap into that

 

[Cowabunga]

For some reason something floating around in my head says green in the standard colour ducting for fibre...might have dreamt it though

It was dark grey plastic pipe they buried the 1km to my place, with three of four manholes along the route.

 

[Richy12]

Grey 96mm BT duct is standard spec.

JMF104 are the manholes

usual procedure is openreach would supply the duct and boxes, anyone can install, open reach would send an engineer to sign off the civil works to proceed with the cabling.

I'm both shocked and horrified that they put a fibre cable up a 25mm mdpe