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Peter Andrews wrote:
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BodgeIt wrote:
I've decided I want to have sky sports for the new football season. I
really don't want a dish on the side of my house so I'm planning to
get it through Virgin Media. There is already a virgin media
connection point in the pavement right next to the end of my drive. I
have block paving laid on the drive and between the pavement and the
house, its not possible to lay a cable from the connection point to
the house without going underneath the block paving, the shortest run
being about 3 metres. I rang VM to ask whose responsibility it was to
lift and relay the block paving. They said they never touch block
paving but there's no need for me to do it either, because their
engineers "have ways" to do it. Well I don't see how a cable can be
laid without lifting the paving. The call centre couldn't elaborate,
only to keep saying "our engineers have ways to do these things".
So my question is, has anyone had VM installed with a cable run under
block paving (or tarmac, or slabs), and what 'special ways' did the
engineers use?
They train in secret at the Hogwash School of Wizardry and Witchcrap
with Barry Trotter.


-- Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk


I think you are all very optimistic - round here they are just laid
on the surface across paving and if you have a 'high class'
installation the cable is put inside a bit of black flexible pipe!
Equally if you want an additional 'box' at the back of the house the
cable is often just thrown over the roof ridge.
Peter
We must be in a *very* posh installation - our flexible conduit isn't
black - it's green! I guess that's to hide it between the blades of
grass. When I did some paving and so on outside, I buried it as deeply
as I could, but it had started out snaked through plants.

PAh - mine was hidden in a mortar fillet running down the side wall


--
geoff