If I recall you're taking notes of what the FTTPoD estimates are versus actual survey? If so then I'm just about to go ahead with an actual survey but my desktop quote is as follows .

Estimated Build Cost: £6,500.00 ex VAT
The build charge includes the estimate for the work and materials required to deliver the service. It also includes the connection charge.

Number of premises passed for FTTP: 20

I'm hoping it won't end up being much more than 2k to 3k, especially as there's native FTTP served not far from me (about two or so streets away I guess).

Edited by Ixel (Mon 03-Sep-18 12:24:07)

Just got a desktop estimate of £12,300.00 ex VAT. I'll update after the survey with the confirmed quote. 4 properties passed which tallies with what I think I know about the current copper DP (4 houses including ours).

Edited by abat (Mon 10-Sep-18 20:29:34)

If people knew or had been able to glean what the distance is to their serving aggregation node, it would be really interesting to cross reference the post survey quoted cost to the costs in the old distance banding method.

Fed up with my copper line, I put in for a desktop quote with Cerberus over the weekend.

Fully prepared to put through a full survey if the costs are less than £4000 but I'm guessing that our estimated costs are likely to be far higher.

Edited by deleted (Mon 10-Sep-18 20:03:48)

Quotes so far on this thread (for those who decided to proceed with a survey) are summarised here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QFkK1sLBFQjl...

Only one person was lucky enough to get an initial desktop quote under £4K - it was £3.9K - but several have had final quotes below that level.

Thanks for collating this will definitely be keeping an eye on this as my original desktop quote was £39k so I never proceeded with a full quote as my priorities shifted to becoming energy neutral or positive but if most of the quotes are significantly reduced I may proceed ahead.

In reply to a post by craski:

If people knew or had been able to glean what the distance is to their serving aggregation node, it would be really interesting to cross reference the post survey quoted cost to the costs in the old distance banding method.

My Agg node is approx 250m and there is ducting with regular access manholes all the way to the pole outside the property. The surveyor said it would need a "Fibre Cab" down one of the manholes and then the new overhead cable from pole to property.

Wish I knew how close I am to a aggregation node here,shame there no online checker available.

Edited by Nightglow (Tue 11-Sep-18 15:41:32)

In reply to a post by Nightglow:

Wish I knew how close I am to a aggregation node here,shame there no online checker available.

Even the service providers can't find out where the aggregation nodes are.

The best you can do today is apply for the free desktop quote, which is zero risk. If you can afford the price quoted, then great. If you can afford half the price quoted, it might still be worth gambling £250+VAT on having a full survey.

Finally some movement on my order. Survey was done this morning. Surveyor confirmed that the Aggregation node is about 800m away at the entrence of the estate. There is ducting all the way down the main road to a DP right outside my drive.
Fingers crossed that the ducting is clear as in theory should be an easy run.
Just need to wait for the final quote to come though but I'm hopeful it'll come under the initial 8k quote.

G