How Do OR Install FTTP (Questions About Box On Property)?

I am considering getting FTTP from Openreach/BT and are served by a pole.

I understand that a box will be attached to the outside wall of the property but does this box need to be put on top of the drilled hole into the property?

Can this box be attached on the outside wall and the hole into the property be drilled away from / near this box?

Thanks

It can be used to cover the entry point.

More usually though, the fibre would be run down to ground level below where it attached to the building, the box ( customer splice point ) is sited here, a separate cable is run from the ONT box in the property (which needs a permanent electrical supply) back to the CSP.

The installer will discuss all of this with you on the day. They can be flexible within reason.

just to add to Zarjaz's on point and excellent post, the newest version of the csp, is about handsized and now locked (screws).

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

More usually though, the fibre would be run down to ground level below where it attached to the building, the box ( customer splice point ) is sited here, a separate cable is run from the ONT box in the property (which needs a permanent electrical supply) back to the CSP.
The installer will discuss all of this with you on the day. They can be flexible within reason.

I do not want the CSP covering the hole I wanted to check if the CSP can be placed on a wall but the fibre/electric cable enter the property say within a foot or two of the CSP.

As the wire from the pole enters on the front of the property can I put up some trunking down to ground level following the "eves"? Will the engineer be happy to use it?

I am concerned I may put up trunking but it is in the wrong place?

Thanks

What sort of trunking are you considering?

Edited by PCJM40 (Thu 12-Dec-24 11:56:05)

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

What sort of trunking are you considering?

Good question.

I’d guess the answer might be ‘maybe’.
I’d not go that route myself … but times change.

True

The only person who will say 100% is the guy on the day, what is acceptable to one engineer may not be to another. If the OP really wants to put up some "trunking/conduit" I would suggest they follow the existing copper cable then they shouldn't be to far out although the guy on the day may refuse to use it so its a gamble.

Yep, I’d go along with that.

FWIWI dont have a csp so i put conduit up the side of the house alongside a downpipe and the fibre runs from the duct where it leaves the ground straight into the conduit then into the eaves and across the loft and then down through the stud walls to a cupboard in the middle of the house. the OR guys were more than happy to use it as i already had drawstrinds/ropes in place for them to use

In reply to a post by threelegs:

FWIWI dont have a csp so i put conduit up the side of the house alongside a downpipe ... the OR guys were more than happy to use it as i already had drawstrinds/ropes in place for them to use

???? So where did they do the joint between the inside fibre from the ONT and the outside fibre from the CBT? I ask because I believe the standard van stock is an inside fibre and an outside fibre, each with a single optical connector and a bare end. The CSP is there as the jointing point for the 2 bare ends.