Erm, no holes were drilled into any walls to secure the ladder, on our house that is around 133 yours old, the only hole that was drilled was on the fascia board just below the gutter and that was to attach the fibre to before it goes down the wall and that was it.

I was even asked where I wanted the cable fitted due to being a end house I had the option to have it either on the front or side of the house, I chose the front to make it easier for them.

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Paul

In reply to a post by jellockwood:

However that is my point, these rules by CommunityFibre are not legal H&S rules only their own rules. My neighbour recently had OpenReach (not CommunityFibre) do a fibre install and they did not do this for that. It is clearly down to CommunityFibre's own rules which I regard as excessive.

I think it was just your installers decision to do this or maybe Community Fibre has recently changed this, I know they didn't do that for my install 2+ years ago and they didn't a few weeks back when they installed next door also BT didn't do it either when they installed FTTP back in 2016 for several neighbours.

Sure they do and have attached the ladder to the phone poles, when I have seen them working up the pole.

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Paul