Virgin Media Installation Conundrum

AirCooledHeaven

I've decided I want to have sky sports for the new football season. I
really don't want a dish on the side of my house so I'm planning to
get it through Virgin Media. There is already a virgin media
connection point in the pavement right next to the end of my drive. I
have block paving laid on the drive and between the pavement and the
house, its not possible to lay a cable from the connection point to
the house without going underneath the block paving, the shortest run
being about 3 metres. I rang VM to ask whose responsibility it was to
lift and relay the block paving. They said they never touch block
paving but there's no need for me to do it either, because their
engineers "have ways" to do it. Well I don't see how a cable can be
laid without lifting the paving. The call centre couldn't elaborate,
only to keep saying "our engineers have ways to do these things".
So my question is, has anyone had VM installed with a cable run under
block paving (or tarmac, or slabs), and what 'special ways' did the
engineers use?

DCFC79

Is it block paving all the way across your drive, i cant answer how it would be done, they laid our cable by digging up the lawn then relaying it

4743hudsonj

DCFC79 wrote: »

Is it block paving all the way across your drive, i cant answer how it would be done, they laid our cable by digging up the lawn then relaying it

our cable is attached to the outside of our house and then burrows inder mud when possible

we have concrete slabs and tarmac not blocks but same principle

its been their for years and never any problems

elvch01

In my case, I told the engineers to run the cable along one of the horizontal fence "rails" down the side of the property and then up & across the garden gate to the house wall using a small batten that I placed there specifically for the purpose. The cable isn't really noticeable & there's no chance of me digging it up