Telephone cable?

[Rob Holmes]

We have a small field where a telephone line crosses, the line is about 200 metres, but I so low you have to watch tractors going under it,

We want to remove a fence and incorporate the field into another one and crop it, but the telephone line is in the way, would we get our knuckles rapped if we dug a drench and buried it?

I'm guessing BT would want a fortune to do it

Has anyone done it or know the rough cost if BT did it?

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Ask first, if you are prepared to dig the trench they may not charge anything.

 

[multi power]

We have a small field where a telephone line crosses, the line is about 200 metres, but I so low you have to watch tractors going under it,

We want to remove a fence and incorporate the field into another one and crop it, but the telephone line is in the way, would we get our knuckles rapped if we dug a drench and buried it?

I'm guessing BT would want a fortune to do it

Has anyone done it or know the rough cost if BT did it?

i assume you dont want any poles in the field? if the line gets broken they will put up longer poles

 

[Brisel]

There's a minimum height for telephone wires. 16' I think. Anything less than that & you can pull them down with your tractors etc without BT charging you for it.

 

[Fox Red]

BT will not like you burying their cable. An overhead line is unlikely to last long underground and when it goes faulty they will be asking questions. I think they do have a duty to raise lines to at least 5.2 metres if it is going to interfere with traffic/vehicles/machinery.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

They will bury it but charge you've fortune for your own dig, ours,would have been over a grand for 2 poles worth
I just moved the poles myself instead

 

[defender]

How many properties does it serve, Are any of the properties yours ?
Is there a wayleave in force for the line ?
Armoured phone cable is not very dear and neither are junction boxes

 

[Rob Holmes]

Only one house and it is ours

 

[Y Fan Wen]

BT will not like you burying their cable. An overhead line is unlikely to last long underground and when it goes faulty they will be asking questions. I think they do have a duty to raise lines to at least 5.2 metres if it is going to interfere with traffic/vehicles/machinery.

They came and put a new pole beside our drive to get to the min height. They went through the whole Cwm correcting wherever it crossed a road or track. No one complained afaik..

 

[bobk]

We have a small field where a telephone line crosses, the line is about 200 metres, but I so low you have to watch tractors going under it,

We want to remove a fence and incorporate the field into another one and crop it, but the telephone line is in the way, would we get our knuckles rapped if we dug a drench and buried it?

I'm guessing BT would want a fortune to do it

Has anyone done it or know the rough cost if BT did it?

Accidentally take it out , bt aren't worth the breath, and they don't do wayleaves

 

[Fuzzy]

Does this help, see section on cable supplied for customer to install... http://www.bt.co.uk/pricing/current/Excess_Construction_boo/2-1319_d0e1.htm

 

[defender]

Only one house and it is ours

well no one is going to tell on you are they ? I would buy cable and just do it
having said that I had a problem with a line being taken down twice and the poles have red D markers so condemned and BT gave me 300 metres of cable to bury

 

[Wombat]

Just do it, we have a new build house with underground cables installed during the build. We eventually managed to get a connection and they put all the DP boxes in with all the job numbers and dates on and away we went. When a neighbour moved in they tried to get BT to come out an add them onto the same infrastructure, BT could see we had a connection at our house and in the exchange but they had no idea how it got there as the Boxes and job number for all our connection points weren't on any system.
The neighbour then spent 10 weeks trying to get a connection into an infrastructure system they said didn't exist despite us being happily connected

They are a bunch of muppets and time wasters, they shouldn't be paid in washers. So if its only you do it and deny all knowledge as they won't have a f@cking clue.

 

[Steevo]

Had a similar line here that went over a field access. Spoke to BT, dug the trench for them, collected the conduit from their compound, layed it and then before I knew it they'd put up a new pole and redirected the wire. Not a penny charged.

And that is the only good word I have to say about BT. But it's a credit to them for sure.

 

[Blue.]

It took 8 bt men a full day to erect a new pole at our local cricket club,the pole got knocked over by a car and just to show what muppets they are at bt the cricket club had asked last year if they would remove the pole as they haven't had a phone at the club for over 5 years now.

Bt wanted £1200 to remove the pole,but a week or so after the car crash they erected another (still no line connected)

 

[Cooper3075]

Lay the cable round the field in the hedge and on the floor by seam to do that a lot. If its a cave to your own house I don't think they do way leave for them if you hit it you will be the one without phone hedge cutter hit ours last year we where without land line for a week I go with the tell them you will dig Ect for them least that way you get it done properly and you know where it is in future and that its deep enough.

 

[S J H]

Only one house and it is ours

I'd bury it then, but put it in a duct.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Dug a trench, layed ducting, inspection chambers around buildings and house.

You'll then be able to cater for the future with fibre optics or cable tv etc.

 

[Dukes Fit]

Don't dig a trench if you don't have to. Put it in with a mole plough.
Company I worked for were subcontractors to BT and I went all over the country moling in BT lines. Some could be 100m, some 20 miles. One was 25ft in some womans garden lol!
Certainly with new lines BT will lay them in a verge or string them along a fence and leave them so long as no one says anything but if someone requests it be buried, they have to do it and there is no charge. Not sure about existing lines though

 

[milkloss]

If they can be convinced the house and the field are not owned by the same people then not only should they lift the wire but maybe also pay you for the poles. Put the phone line in someone else's name. Use your porn name: the name of your first pet followed by the first street you lived in.

Change it back later.