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How do Virgin install their BB?

Jon_01
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I'm thinking of moving from BT to Virgin when the Jan sale offers go live (if there are any!).
Can anyone that's had Virgin as a new install let me know how flexible they are with their cabling?
We had the front of our house relaid at the start of the year and don't want some half wit digging up the membrane, slate and slabs we've just paid to have laid. So will they go round the edge or do they insist on going in a straight line?
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They will take the path of least resistance. Beware of what they promise, VM's customer service is a shambles. They will promise you anything but seldom deliver. Have a look at their user forum.
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Jon_01 said:I'm thinking of moving from BT to Virgin when the Jan sale offers go live (if there are any!).Can anyone that's had Virgin as a new install let me know how flexible they are with their cabling?We had the front of our house relaid at the start of the year and don't want some half wit digging up the membrane, slate and slabs we've just paid to have laid. So will they go round the edge or do they insist on going in a straight line?Thanks...
When they where installing the ducts in the footpath I asked them to move the terminal point so that it would be in line with where it would enter the house but they said they could not alter the location due to it being shared with neighbour.
I have seen cable laid that would not be a spades depth below finish level both Virgin and Openreach0 -
35har1old said:Jon_01 said:We had the front of our house relaid at the start of the year and don't want some half wit digging up the membrane, slate and slabs we've just paid to have laid. So will they go round the edge or do they insist on going in a straight line?
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Shell (now TT) BB / Lebara mobi. Ripple Kirk Hill member.
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 33MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.Not exactly back from my break, but dipping in and out of the forum.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!0 -
Thanks all.The terminal point was already installed before we moved in and it's at the centre of the property, if they go in a straight line then it would cut right across the area we've had relaid.Having read the complete dog's breakfast, they can make when they install, I've crossed them off the list.I'll go with a company that can use the existing Open Reach connection.Thanks again...0
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A gront farden ??
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greyteam1959 said:A gront farden ??
😁😁😁😁A farden for gronting inI could edit the post to fix the typo, but I don't think I will now!
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Shell (now TT) BB / Lebara mobi. Ripple Kirk Hill member.
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 33MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.Not exactly back from my break, but dipping in and out of the forum.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!3 -
Jon_01 said:Thanks all.The terminal point was already installed before we moved in and it's at the centre of the property, if they go in a straight line then it would cut right across the area we've had relaid.Having read the complete dog's breakfast, they can make when they install, I've crossed them off the list.I'll go with a company that can use the existing Open Reach connection.Thanks again...
The router requires a power source as well as the fibre
In my case the original BT entry point was behind the front door I relied on ext to have a suitable location for the router as there was no power source so when having fibre installed Openreach had to reroute out of the original duct outside the front door in lawn cable was basically laid 100mm deep and then across paviored path to rise into exterior connection box then through wall to final position0 -
Used Virgin twice and both times they installed the cable where I wanted it. First time was up the front of the property (two storey maisonette above a restaurant) into the living room and also into a bedroom above that room. Second time they ran the cable down the side of a detached house and drilled through the wall into a cupboard under the stairs.
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Ask for a pre install. The engineer gave me the cable and I did it myself and got the job done the way I wanted. He came back 2 weeks later to hook everything up.0
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