In reply to a post by martynp1:

I just got an email today saying Cerberus had sent my order through to BT.

I can imagine that I will probably get a very similar result as you. In my email it said the Survey would only look at external work, did they come to your property and talk to you or did you catch them surveying?

With an extra £3K of "float" in recent oD charges do they even bother coming coming through the door any more?

FTTPoD puts a CBT in the standard place outside the property, and the internal installation is a normal FTTP install. So there's no *need* to come inside until installation time, but typically they will if you ask them to, and will check your proposed ONT location and cable routing makes sense.

It's a nice courtesy, given that you're paying at least £250+VAT, and quite possibly a lot more

I know my survey took place more than 2.5 years ago now, so probably scarcely relevant, especially with current events, but they did a very thorough internal building (cable route) survey. I had the ONT placed in what on reflection is a non-standard location and they were more than happy to oblige...I guess because I was paying.

Maybe that's why my surveyed cost was something like 136% of mu desktop cost at the time 😂

He sounded helpful, it's a shame that the quote came back more than expected but as other says it's probably the norm from now on.

Shame that I live right in-between two residential areas and there is only a small cluster of us (7-8) so there are no current plans for native FTTP and I can't imagine there will be in the future.

I'll post here when I get my survey results, wish me luck!

Good luck!

I had my desk to survey result come back as "in excess of £100K with no other premises passed". I guess i won't be taking it any further

Oooh. That's cruel.

More data for the spreadsheet and fttpod chat...

I live in a 'rural' area so vouchers are available. Copper line broadband ~1.25mbps. 4G ~18Mbps (dedicated 4G router with external high-gain antenna) but can be quite flaky. Certainly won't allow a teams call with any video on at either end.

I had a paid fttpod survey in 2018 which came back as ~14K (already on the spreadsheet here). 7 properties passed + mine. Could claim 2K voucher. Didn't proceed.

In the interim have tried a CFP (~30 properties, unfortunately most (20) of the ones defined by OR are farm storage units which would never have taken a line so no chance to use vouchers for these. They wouldn't remove these from the quote. £130K. Obviously didn't proceed!

Since Covid, working from home, now have a company through which I work, thought I'd give FTTPod another go. Vouchers require minimum 2 properties so applied for a linked order with direct neighbour (mine a business order, his residential). Unable to quote for desktop survey. Bizarre given they've done at least 2 full surveys so should have plenty of data!
Paid for survey, was done the following week.
Cost £18000 for the 2 properties, 7K claimable in rural vouchers & council top up. Paid up this week, fibre here I come.

Cerberus and in particular Bob Hendy have been really helpful.

Ben

In reply to a post by bcsalt:

Cost £18000 for the 2 properties, 7K claimable in rural vouchers & council top up. Paid up this week, fibre here I come.

Yay

Is that quoted price plus VAT or including VAT? I have your previous quote in the spreadsheet as £11,945+VAT (which is just over £14K inc VAT)

Edited by candlerb (Fri 19-Feb-21 10:36:53)

18K Including vat

Difficult to say how much of the jump is from adding a second property and how much is price increase over 2 years (Bob did say that prices had drifted upwards, of course!). The vouchers level it all out though!

Ben