The benefits of NTL. It's not your SACM it's theirs. Their CM has died and a call to CS will mean an engineer will come along and replace it with another working one. 0800 052 2000 should do you right, though I think there is a specific BB support line.
If you ask nicely they should even compensate you for the days you cannot use your BB service (£17/31= 50p/day for 150k)

to CF.