You will most likely be teamed up with a second person and operate as part of a two man, residential install team.
Basically you leave the yard at about 07.30 get to your first job some time after 08.00 and get stuck in. When you get to the install, you introduce yourselves to the sub (subscriber), agree cable-routes, placement of service points etc, then as a team pull the drop cable from the cab to the house. Once the cable is pulled you get all the required kit out of the van, and get the drop into the customers property. This is done by drilling through the boundry wall into the property and feeding the drop cable throught the hole from an access point in the footpath outside the subs house. If there is a garden you will be reguired to bury the drop upto 10 inches deep in boarders and 8 inches deep in the lawn. The drop cable is itself placed inside a length of green plastic flexi-duct to help protect it from customers spades. They love cutting the cable with spades. Once the cable is buried in the garden you may need to kango a track across any concrete or tarmac at the front of the house.
While the outside man is doing all the graft, the inside man will have drilled out throught the wall of the house. He will then feed out any internal cables required (catv for tv feed and telco for the phone line), we will then mouth any and all service points and clip any cable required to where the customers equipment is situated.
On the outside of the house over the drillout point a grey service point called an ETB is mounted (ETB = End or External Termination Box). Inside this box the drop cable and the internal cables are joined together. Any and all external reinstatement is done to return the subs property to as close a condition as before you started work.
Once all the connections are made at the house, the drop cable is connected at the cab. Once this final connection is made to the network, the inside man then connects up the digi decoder/ cable modem, checkes the phoneline, calls the hit to activate the digi stb. Tunes up the subs tv/ vcr, gives the demo and thn you boogie off to do it all over again.
Last time I was talkin to any of the installers I think he said the two-man teams where doing 4 or 5 installs a day. No idea if thats the case now. If you do get the start in 6 weeks, hope you get Alex McAlister as your supervisor. Hes been at the job since ntl came to Belfast and is a sound bloke all in all.
Good luck no matter what happens, just say clear of Gerry the manager, the has the man management skills of a rabid dog. I'll prolly be talkin to Alex tomorrow, if so I'll ask some questions about the install quotas/ pay etc an PM to you if you wish.
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As far as i know it is bring wire from the box in the street into the users home etc ..
to the forum. Just wait for the post saying that if you have to pass a 6-week training course, the job can't be with NTL.
i was hoping to hear someone say it was a great job lol . Well i have never had a good job yet all crappy & crappy money etc. This to me is prob the best job i will ever get lol if only i had went to uni instead of wanting money to pee away lol 
Oh well iam still a young 26 year old the job i want really is in IT only i droped out after 1 year cause i picked dam information technology when i really wanted a hands on job .
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