Bill wrote:
In message , Harry
Bloomfield writes

Just scrounge a bit of their green ducting and lay it in the ground
where you, want it to run. Just make sure the route is not too
tortuous and include some sort of draw wire inside, so they can use it
to pull their cable through the duct.

I did just that when I was having the drive done. Ran a 4" duct under
it from the side of the road up to the outside of the lounge window
where there is an air brick. Then had the good luck to meet the NTL
surveyor who was marking the pavement prior to installing the ducting
for cable. Not only got him to mark a spot next to my duct for his
access but also to put in an extra one for the annexe. When the install
guy arrived he was quite happy, very happy in fact, to use my duct. So
was I, no way was he going to cut up my new tarmac!!

In contrast to e.g. government departments, commercial companies are
only too happy to have usable ducts with draw wires supplied to them for
installation of their services.


I've laid telephone wires as well..and had BT connect them up.


A chat with the local installers will usually result in success, or at
least a referral to the manager who is in charge or routing etc.

Whe I undergrounded the overahead 11kV across the back garden, the
electricity company were brutally explicit. They had so much budget to
underground existing lines: If I wanted it done, it was up to me to
make this bit more cost effective than any other bit they might have
tackled. I.e. pay more than half.


The farmer was delighted to trade a bit of headlannd for end-of line
stays, and remove poles from his fields..

I provided a concrete pad for a substation, and undergrounded an
incoming feed to the house and they laid the 11KV, plonked a huge
transformer on my slab, connected to my cable and hooked that to my
meter and main fuse.

All discussed in advance, planned well, and implemented FAIRLY well. A
large truck using my verge as a passing place must have pushed a stone
into the 11KV cos it blew eventually, necessitating a diesel generator
the size of the garage to power the house for two weeks while they
repaired it..;-)