In reply to a post by 1nfern0:

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

When my survey was done, the surveyor didn't check for blocked ducts, he said that OR would pay for clearing any blockages as it was their responsibility

In reply to a post by lincsat:

In reply to a post by 1nfern0:

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

When my survey was done, the surveyor didn't check for blocked ducts, he said that OR would pay for clearing any blockages as it was their responsibility

Ahh, thats encouraging. The Surveyor mentioned he wasn't looking for blockages but I'd assumed it'd get picked up later down the line.

How long did you wait for the final quote to come through after survey?

G

In reply to a post by 1nfern0:

Ahh, thats encouraging. The Surveyor mentioned he wasn't looking for blockages but I'd assumed it'd get picked up later down the line.

How long did you wait for the final quote to come through after survey?

G

IIRC, just over 2 Weeks

For me it was about 4 weeks from survey to quote. Someone else said they were waiting for 5.

I can corroborate the information about blockages. I placed my order at end of June. About 5 weeks later I was told that the underground cabling team had found two blocked sections of duct and a buried box that needed to be uncovered.

They raised new jobs to deal with those issues, and I'm currently waiting on those.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

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 that Candlerb. I will be sure to post my desktop quote in due course.

Hi all, I thought I would put up my experience so far as I've just had the survey done.

The dektop quote came in at £16,800.00 ex VAT through Cerberus. Due to new build properties accross the road having native FTTP I decided to pay for the survey.

The BT chap turned up yesterday and said according to their records, the ducting which is on my new build estate doesn't exist, which is why I think the desktop quote came in so expensive due to expected civil works. However he said no civil works are required as there is ducting already in place to the AG some 6-800 meters away.

I'll update once I receive the finalised quote.

Probably near PCP 30

In reply to a post by witchunt:

Probably near PCP 30

PCP 30?

Just had an email from Cerberus Networks to confirm that my order is in a queue and that I'll receive a call from the surveyor to arrange a site visit. I wonder how long that'll take until I receive a call, since I imagine there's a bit of a backlog at the moment.

In reply to a post by Ixel:

Just had an email from Cerberus Networks to confirm that my order is in a queue and that I'll receive a call from the surveyor to arrange a site visit. I wonder how long that'll take until I receive a call, since I imagine there's a bit of a backlog at the moment.

I paid for it on the 30th Aug. I got an email a couple of days later saying Cerberus would receive an update from BTO every Tuesday. I emailled at the start of this week asking if there is an update to be told they hadn't heard back from BTO.

Then I got a knock at the door a few hours later and it was an BTO engineer. Luckily I was home. Not sure why there was a breakdown between Cerberus and BTO to be honest but it's done now.