In reply to a post by jamestbb:

The distance from the pole in the grounds to the site office is around 58m, and from the pole outside to the site office is around 48m. The site office is around 2.5m in height where it would anchor to. I could put a pole up to get it higher if required as I am mounting an outdoor AP at around 3.5m height also.

Distance should be OK ... and the drop from the pole on site does not cross a highway. Just think of running a drop to a bungalow - it would be a similar height to where yours will end.

If you are putting a AP up on a pole - make sure you include a lightning/surge arrestor .

In reply to a post by jamestbb:

Is there a possibility that the service cannot be provided, or just more likely it will take time if they need additional works (like a carrier pole further down the allotment)? I don't mind this of course, whatever needs doing to provide service.

My experience is: if the computer says "yes" and accepts the order, very likely it will get delivered one way or another.

My experience comes from having FTTPoD installed in 2019. The address checker marked three additional properties as having FTTP available - but these were not all my direct neighbours. Our road has unusual numbering which is linear rather than odd/even for each side, so I suspect they just activated the wrong properties.

Anyway, one of them (3 doors down) was told by Vodafone that FTTP was available, so they ordered it. When Openreach came to install, they found there was no ducting between the footway box outside my house where the CBT is and theirs. Rather than reject the order, they scheduled a dig between the two footway boxes to install new ducting in the pavement. It took several months, but they got their FTTP in the end.

It would have been a lot cheaper for Openreach to update the database to mark the property as FTTP unavailable!

A quick update. The "committed date" was supposed to be tomorrow (Thursday 24th) but as expected, my ISP called me yesterday to say Openreach need to send out a surveyor and this will take longer, so the appointment for Thursday was cancelled until they can figure out it's all doable.

Out of the blue, this morning, an Openreach engineer called me to say he is on site and looking to do the external work. I popped round and they have a cherry picker and two engineers, and were looking to get the drop wire to the site office from the pole.

I mounted a strong piece of timber to the side of the cabin to get a little extra height and more secure than mounting on the fascia, and they used this with the triangle mount for the drop wire. As there was a tree that the wire had to go through from the pole, they also managed to get some extra height when passing it through by using a tree branch so when it came out the other side it was a few feet higher than the pole itself.

It's plenty high enough and out of harms way of anyone. A few photos:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jzq1FGSbdRA4pnJk6

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bAKYFCZn4RMiqqyAA

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qz2z8EJG3DBDMsQY9

They have completed the external works and we now await another engineer to patch it through and install the ONT (something they were not able to do apparently, as they were just there to prove it can be delivered).

Edited by jamestbb (Wed 23-Sep-26 17:35:32)

V. Nice. 👍 I’d make sure that timber vertical is nice and secure. There will be some load on it in winter stormy weather with that long drop.

they also managed to get some extra height when passing it through by using a tree branch so when it came out the other side it was a few feet higher than the pole itself.

Please tell me it’s not taught through the tree. If it is, it’ll rub through when windy.

Not taught no. I watched them do it and they even said this.

In reply to a post by jamestbb:

Not taught no. I watched them do it and they even said this.

Fair enough.

Hopefully the rest goes as smoothly.

Should be, the external CSP is now there so just a case of popping it through the wall to the ONT. Frustrating that they couldn't do it there any then, it will take another engineer 10 minutes with it being a timber cabin - small hole through and plug in./test.

Edited by jamestbb (Wed 23-Sep-26 22:54:00)

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

V. Nice. 👍 I’d make sure that timber vertical is nice and secure. There will be some load on it in winter stormy weather with that long drop.

Yeah that need reinforcing, it will come off with the wind in the wrong direction. The quickest way would be a metal pole into a concreate base.so that the load goes virtically down instead of
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so you were assigned the top right cbt then ?