In reply to a post by lee111s:

The best thing you can do is to put the ducting in place with a rope so that cabling can be pulled through if needs be if and when Fibre to the home becomes available to you however I wouldn't get your hopes up of it happening any time in the next decade if you already have FTTC.

I would make sure that the trunking is large enough to accept any connectors that may be on the end of the cable.

If the lead in has an end fitted, then just put the other end through ?

Yes, but certainly in the case of Gigaclear the cables have connectors on both ends. That way the installation can be done without special tools.

How long is the duct?
I've managed to push a bit of nice stiff coax through 30m of similar sized duct or as already suggested, blowing air through duct it's amazing how far it will carry string which you can then use to pull in a bigger rope. Have also seen people using vacuum cleaners to suck string through a duct and that can work well too.

Tie a piece of cotton wool or even kitchen roll to a piece of string and then suck it through with a vacuum cleaner, it works very well.

Edited by R0NSKI (Sat 07-Jan-17 20:05:15)

If you do put in some form of draw rope/wire; and you may after FTTPing, want to draw in additional cables, make the draw rope.wire about 2.25 times the length of the duct/pipe, so that it can be drawn back, before attempting the next cable.

If you make it significantly less, you can't pull it back to the starting position for the next cable - except by pulling back the (first/previous) cable.

Or just pull in a new draw rope with the new cable , thats what our guys do.