OpenReach were swarming around 'my' cabinet a couple of days, one particular engineer assisted by another spent most of the day with the old cabinet open sorting wiring out.

What might he have been doing and is that a promising indication or completely normal activity for a very recently installed cabinet?

Only 2 reasons they would be working on both cabinets. To install the copper ties or to earth bond the cabinets if they are close together

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Only 2 reasons they would be working on both cabinets. To install the copper ties or to earth bond the cabinets if they are close together

Over a week now and two new Fibre cabinets installed in Whaley Lane & Pensby Road, Scottish Power have installed mains cable - but two large holes still left , power cables visible and gathering chip papers, not to mention large orange barriers obstructing traffic junction at one location and forcing pedestrians onto road at other - not encouraging

http://roadworks.org & http://travel.cheshireeast.gov.uk/network.aspx

I can see that BT are doing works.

Ropewalk Cottage, The Ropewalk, Parkgate, Neston CH64 6TJ
Works Start: 18 Jun
End: 24 Jun

Neston Road, Ness, Neston, Cheshire
Works Start: 03 Jul
End: 09 Jul
Location : FOOTWAY OUTSIDE GOLDSTRAW FARM TO OPPOSITE THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE ON, NESTON ROAD
Description : Install 126m of 1 way poly duct in Footway

Hinderton Road, Neston, CH64
Works Start: 05 Jul
End: 10 Jul
Low impact, delays unlikely

Location : (PCP10), NGA RELATED WORKS, (PCP10 V2) 330412.50 377925.75, SIDE OF WOODRUFF HINDERTON LANE, 330416.25 377918.00, JUNCTI
Description : power
Current status: Advanced planning
Traffic lights, etc:
Queries should be addressed to BT quoting reference BC005WP00100500136954602

Edited by francisuk25 (Fri 20-Jun-14 03:40:06)

I think that is more to do with new fibre cabinets recently installed in Burton village, not really anywhere near Irby, it's further up the coast.

"not encouraging", what kind of progress are you hoping to see after just over a week's work?

In reply to a post by Irby:

"not encouraging", what kind of progress are you hoping to see after just over a week's work?

Well the holes filled in and footpath restored at least

That's the power going in for the Burton cabinet. Wirral Council doesn't use roadworks.org at all anyway.

Interestingly, Neston's fibre cabinets are fed directly from Bromborough exchange so nothing that goes on there will have anything to do with Irby's cabinets which are fed from Arrowebrook exchange.

In reply to a post by XboxAsap:

In reply to a post by Irby:

"not encouraging", what kind of progress are you hoping to see after just over a week's work?

Well the holes filled in and footpath restored at least

Just checked hole filled and footpath restored Whaley Lane - guess my comments worked lol

In reply to a post by Icaras:

Not that that's been any help for Caldy exchange. All of the cabs have been in for ages. Seems to me they are having trouble bringing in the long distance fibre from the headend (which, like Irby is Arrowebrook in Upton).

Irby should be easier though as all the hard work was done on that when Heswall was done a few years ago so there will be spare fibres in the link from the headend that can be used.

Is there any more info on this - Cabinets went in around West Kirby in mid-December. I saw a large thick black cable getting fed into one of the cabinets weeks ago (? the fibreoptic cable) but its all gone very quiet