Installing into a New House

[markmarkymark]

Morning All

This post sounds similar to another one on here - but there are differences.

Moving to a new house in the next three weeks or so. The house has been built in someones garden (they used to have a huge garden). All the houses in the road have cable - the cable stops at the pavement outside the drive of next door. I have been informed by the builder there is no reason why the cable can not be run from this spot to the new house as they have put in a service duct which takes the BT phone line from the same point. Does that sound reasonable to you?

In each room of the house is a media panel which contains TV point, radio, LAN and cable point. How will virgin be in connecting the cable TV / internet service to a central point in the house (where the cable enters the house) and then us running the service from what ever room we decide? I have a hunch they would want to put in the service right up to the point where the cable modem / TV is connected? Thing is - I want to avoid running cables all over the house when they are already installed with suitable sockets etc.

(The internet point is not such a great issue as I will probably use WiFi anyway).

Do you suggest I get someone out the survey the whole situation first - and if so will that cost?

thanks for your commments.

rgs

Mark

[jungleguy]

VM cannot/will not, pull cable through the BT service ducting.

You need to contact moves and transfers, if your new address has been registered with Royal Mail, they should be able to create the address as serviceable.
From experience this may take a while to sort out, so contact them sooner not later.

Have you rung sales to see if your address is on VM data base? And if it is what serviceable status is it at?

You've stated that there is a cable point within the property. How do you know its cable?

you could get it surveyed. use this form
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/form...ableLeads.html

cheers