Building new property - FTTP pre wire?

Hey

We have recently been granted planning permission for a new end of terrace house. We currently live in the current end of terrace, which has Openreach FTTP that is fed overhead.

I phoned the Openreach new builds team and the person I spoke to has said that they wouldn't provide me with the connectorised fibre cable that I would need to prewire the house unless we were building 2 or more properties.

This is quite annoying as the property will have network cabling throughout and will be prewired for virgin media, so the ONT would need to be in the utility cupboard with the rest of the equipment.

Is this true? Any solutions anyone can think of?

Worth asking as once the house is built, there is not much I can do!

Thanks

You�d have to presume that Openreach would provide the new property overhead too.
So run a small tube with very gentle bends and a drawstring from outside to where you wish the ONT to be.

Great idea, thank you! If the total distance from the pole to the utility cupboard is greater than 30m, will I have to think of a backup location for the ONT? Or is the engineer able to daisy chain the fibre cable to get the extra length?

My concern is that the connectorised block terminal is two poles down the road - although the new house will be slightly closer to the pole with the CBT on it.

Thanks

If I were the OP I'd need to know what counts as "small" . As in the minimum and recommended diameters.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 03-Mar-20 22:37:27)

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-for-... should have all the info

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

If I were the OP I'd need to know what counts as "small" . As in the minimum and recommended diameters.

I was just going to opt for some 20mm corrugated conduit as I believe the cable is fed from the ONT outwards, so it should just need to be at least the diameter of the sc-apc connector (I think?)

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-for-... should have all the info

The content was a bit vague about single property developments, especially single properties that already had access to fttp. But there was a lot of helpful info nevertheless!


Thanks for the help!

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

You�d have to presume that Openreach would provide the new property overhead too.
So run a small tube with very gentle bends and a drawstring from outside to where you wish the ONT to be.

Would the cable have a connector on the end? A cable with a connector would quite possibly fit in the oval plastic tubing used to bury household wiring behind plaster.

Alternatively can the fibre be terminated in the attic together with the associated equipment?

The cables from the CBT can be of varying lengths, up to 160m are easily available.

The cable from inside to out will have an SC connector on it, but you would pull the end without it on through the duct It then gets spliced through in a purpose made enclosure mounted outside.

when my fttp was installed the cable was pulled through the ducti installed directly to the hall cupboard where a connector was fitted that plugged in to the ONT. there was no splice done outside. the fibre cable from the connector block outside is only 5mm in diameter, slightly bigger if it also has a copper pair attached. mine was just the fibre which i fed through 13mm o/d corrugated ducting internally to the ONT location( I only used the small ducting because I already had some) so 20mm ducting should be fine

Edited by threelegs (Wed 04-Mar-20 09:34:40)

In reply to a post by threelegs:

when my fttp was installed the cable was pulled through the ducti installed directly to the hall cupboard where a connector was fitted that plugged in to the ONT. there was no splice done outside.

Things have changed since your FTTP was installed, back to a CSP and an inside to outside kit with a SC connector preconnected

Edited by deleted (Wed 04-Mar-20 09:36:59)