I am sure there are plenty of blocked ducts, since a lot of them are years old and no doubt no maintenance on them whatsoever. This seems to be the norm in this country, lack of maintenance of a lot of things,

No one maintains ducts until they need to. It would be an expensive and pointless exercise

Edited by deleted (Thu 05-Jan-23 16:47:50)

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

This seems to be the norm in this country, lack of maintenance of a lot of things,

But until recently the only time maintenance was required was when new copper wires needed to be pushed through due to additional housing being built. Until that occurs, the installed in the 1960's and 1970s underground ducts are "maintenance free" and hence significantly cheaper on the 'line rental' part of your bill.

Edited by jchamier (Thu 05-Jan-23 17:32:40)

In reply to a post by rogan8:

I am sure there are plenty of blocked ducts, since a lot of them are years old and no doubt no maintenance on them whatsoever. This seems to be the norm in this country, lack of maintenance of a lot of things,

No one maintains ducts until they need to. It would be an expensive and pointless exercise

Maybe you should be replying to the person you are quotes rather than me.

I prefer it my way.

This one is for you Adrian from someone who doesn't want to post to you directly for some weird reason but hey-ho I will put my big boy trousers on and assist

In reply to a post by rogan8:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I am sure there are plenty of blocked ducts, since a lot of them are years old and no doubt no maintenance on them whatsoever. This seems to be the norm in this country, lack of maintenance of a lot of things,

No one maintains ducts until they need to. It would be an expensive and pointless exercise

Edited by deleted (Fri 06-Jan-23 09:55:01)

In reply to a post by rogan8:

I prefer it my way.

Not a newsgroup fan then?

Activity recommenced today at a new pole opposite. That's a gap of 4 months since the CBTs and coils of fibre were left hanging off the poles.

Whilst most is round with a yellow stripe, there is also some black flat cable about the size of 2.5mm twin & earth cable. From the label on one of the 5 coils, this one is Cable Size 8 Fibre/Copper.

Besides running the new overheads between old poles and a new intermediate pole (no underground to this one) some of the CBTs now have their fibre routed through duct underground to the adjacent manhole.

Am just hoping that the progress continues.

Cheers!