In reply to a post by Ixel:

Indeed, but I'm not certain if "actively trade" includes 'working remotely from my house'. I think I asked on the forum before and was told that I'd probably need to prove I do business from my house, e.g. business bank statement (which doesn't say this address so that's not possible) or VAT registered address (again not possible). Perhaps I should ask the scheme for more insight, or Cerberus, as to if and how I might be able to claim it as a business if I'm working from home remotely?

Cerberus will apply for the voucher on your behalf, so you'd be best to ask them if you qualify. I hope you get it as paying only for the VAT would be amazing.

Thanks, I'll try. Do you know whether it's possibly too late to ask now since I'm paying the invoice, or should I postpone paying the invoice until this is clarified?

Of course, if your home is the place where you do the main running of your business, you may need a licence from the council and perhaps should be paying business rates on the relevant part of the house.

Be wary of opening a can of worms .

An interesting point, well I don't do business from home itself, I work remotely for my business from home. I don't think I'll bother with this voucher, may just open up complications and delay the order. It sounds good but I don't think I'm eligible and I can afford it reasonably anyway. Thanks.

Today i received my confirmed build charge, the desktop quote was £7,600.00 + VAT and my confirmed build charge is £2,936.00 + VAT - just under the £3k voucher

The only negative part for me is that i've recently switched my FTTC to zen and have around 10 months left on the contract.

I'll be going ahead anyway!

Congratulations! Hopefully the installation process will go reasonably smoothly, as I hope with mine too.

Nice, by the time it's installed you won't have 10 months left with Zen. It may be possible to buy yourself out of the contract at a reduced rate, theory is as you've left they aren't incurring any further costs so you don't need to pay so much - worth asking the question once you're fibre is live and you know it's reliable.

Ouch

Estimated Build Cost: £11,000.00 ex VAT

Number of premises passed for FTTP: 15

Suburban main road with PCP within 100m. No idea where the fibre node is.

Think I will hold out for gfast or native fttp

Just received my quote - half the original price - desktop quote was £7,100+vat - after survey quote is £3,780+vat which will be mostly covered by the £3K voucher and I can reclaim the vat as well so happy days!

In reply to a post by Ixel:

Just to update to say that I've had a reasonably pleasant surprise. My build charge has come through this afternoon and it's a little less than I expected it might've ended up being.

The Openreach estimated build charge was £6,500.00 + VAT. The confirmed build charge is £2,734.83 + VAT. This includes the reduction for the survey and a deduction of £1,250.00 for premises passed.

I've agreed to the price and am waiting to be invoiced.

Congrats mate!

I was watching out for your progress on the order. I think I'll put in my order when they open up the FTTPoD orders again.