Removal of vm equipment
Asking for a friend.
Moving into a house that the previous occupant had broadband supplied by VM. This is no longer in use. The house will be modernised and the garden landscaped. Who to contact for removal of all unwanted VM cabling & equipment etc? Thanks. |
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Personally I'd find way to leave the VM cable into the house present as it could make sale easier and you may want VM sometime in the future. Can be left tidy on the inside but ready to use.
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The reponse from V.M.
"The cable will remain our property and will be classed as a utility in the same brackets as gas, water electric etc Removing this may have a detrimental effect on the local network for customers in the area That is why we ask to keep it in place Also if the Home owner required services, Then it would need a dig again. Sadly we are not able to remove this" |
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What I have seen some people do is to roll up the cable and terminating box and place it at the boundary of the property. As they state the cable should be properly terminated to prevent others from loosing service.
Typical terminator looks like this: Attachment 29267 |
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Thanks, your info. will be taken into consideration....
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it does not comply with standards |
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The cable ducting is 1-2 cms. below the surface.
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Back in the day the recommended depth to bury cable was one spades depth.
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I'm sure that they would like you to keep it there as it encourages new occupants to subscribe and makes it easier & cheaper for them if they do.
However, VM are notorious for being awkward and inflexible depending upon what benefits them, up to and including lying in my (and others) experience/opinion, so make sure that any agreement is in writing. I can't imagine that they could legally do anything about it if anyone didn't want it on their property and insisted on its removal. In the old days of cable, when cable was strung from house to house, a rental fee was paid to properties that didn't subscribe. This might be worth pursuing for some people to either make a little money or (more likely) get VM to remove it. |
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Depth in the footway/ Carriageway is 250mm/450mm respectively Commonsense would suggest if you laying across a garden that you would put it down a good spades depth+, as suggested, to prevent a future spade going through it. But it depends how hard the ground is. Installers only carry basic tools and if it is hard ground they won't waste time breaking through it. You have instructed them to remove it, they have said they won't. In the absence of an agreement between you and Virgin Media for it to be there they are trespassing and you are within your rights to remove it. If you wanted service in the future, or a subsequent owner wanted service, VM will just run another cable to the property. |
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