Fibre Installation Options

[Mr+Slant]

Its probably worth pointing out that no Openreach engineer is going to route fibre through the suspended cavity under the ground floor 🙂

They'll drill through at the side of the bay window if feasible.

[Anonymous]

Bottom line is that the installer will negotiate, up to a point, but it has to be an easy location.  They won’t do anything that involves a lot of work as they are on a tight time budget, so they certainly won’t start lifting floorboards.

As someone said, the rules say it has to be within reach of a power socket, even if only an extension lead and it has to be a cable run of no more than 10m from the entry point.  It is possible to get up to 30m but that is a more expensive install and the request would have to go through Sky.

[Danorak]

Oh, totally agree, I don't expect, nor want, an engineer to be pulling up flooring etc (no offence to any engineers)-I would rather do that anyway. If that was the case, then it'd make more sense to pick up a junction box under the floor and put a new socket in next to the fibre entry point. My initial concern was that where my fibre enters the house, there is no double socket, so I was trying to ascertain whether the cable entry could be re-routed to meet a double socket in my lounge. I'm still considering breaking out some of the floor in a discreet area to see if can trace some wiring to put a junction box in and add a socket. I'd rather do that and make a neater job if I can. I have now got until the 30th of May to try and resolve the socket issue, so I'll see what I can come up with...

[Anonymous]

Doesn't need a double socket.  A double extension etc. will work just fine.  Of course, if you want the work to make it lok neater...

[Danorak]

There is no socket in my hallway, the closest is the kitchen, so running an extension lead isn't an option. 

[JimM1]

@Danorak If you have no power socket the the installer must have had another plan for the second part of the installation! Normally like to go straight thru the grey outside with the fibre to a neatly fitted ONT on the indide, but the sucker does need a power source.

[Danorak81]

Installation successful yesterday. 

the installer went through the wall to the porch area of the house, and ran it around the inside of that. He then drilled through to the area I highlighted in my picture on page 1 (yellow box) and fitted the small white box on that wall. 

Whilst there is a double socket there, we ran an Ethernet cable to the current location of my router, which is just over 2m away. It's behind the sofa anyway, but we're in the midst of decorating, so when the time comes, I'll run the cable under the carpet so it's out of the way. 

Thanks for the support/advice all.