Moving to new house - timescale?

Hi all

We will soon be moving to a brand new house (no cable in area). As I work from home I want to be up and running with boradband (hopefully Be) asap. I was just wondering if it's possible to get the BT line installed prior to moving in (after exchange of contract)? Would BT need physical access to the house? - I seem to recall a few years back when I moved into a new house the cables were already laid from the hosue to a wiring duct somehwere outside.

All advice appreciated.
Thamx

Ian

There are too many ifs and buts to give a clear answer. Openreach will, 99.9% of the time, require access to provide the line ..... you can get a 'simultaneous provide' of both voice and broadband services, but whether this is a product that Be* can arrange, I don't know.

"was just wondering if it's possible to get the BT line installed prior to moving in (after exchange of contract)?"

If you are the legal owner then yes, which after exchange you are still not. At completion you become so. Reason is because you can still pull out at exchange - expensive but possible. For a new build things may vary slightly and it is a case of asking the building firm if happy for you to do so.

They will need access inside as they need to check the line works inside, the lines even if there are checked.

Remember as Be do not do telephone line rental, the company who is doing your voice side will be the ones arranging the install, but a simultaneous provider where you ask from a Linked Order Reference Number (LORN) from the voice provider and hand this to the broadband as part of a SIM provide should allow the ADSL to be active on the day the phone line goes active. In theory - but this process does fail fairly often

Many new houses are pre-wired with a BT master, often subsidised by the developer but in some locations BT just perform it under the new build program, so access may not be required. You will find many developers now pay a third party (BT approved) terminator to connect up the Master then use their own sparks to sling some cables around the premises for distribution to the rooms.

By the way, don't choose the simultaneous provide route, as Andrew has already stated. It is an almost guaranteed c**k up and very difficult to sort out when it does go wrong..

Only problem is the last bit!

The cabling installed by a builder's sparks is often rubbish it seems - burglar alarm cable and the like.

Wholly agree, hence I said "slung" in to the premises...

The cabling installed by a builder's sparks is often rubbish it seems - burglar alarm cable and the like.

You ain't kidding Rob.
I increased my connection speed by 2.5 to 3 Mbps just by removing the new internal wiring from the equation.
Router upstairs (on one of the six or seven extension sockets) = absolute maximum sync around 1600kbps.
Router downstairs (master socket with filtered face-plate) = typical sync 4Mbps (maximum around 4.5Mbps).