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How can I remove an NTL cable?

  • 14-04-2011 11:51pm
    #1
    98-00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭


    NTL have a cable passing over the front garden. It supplies the house to left, passes through/supplies our place and on to the house on the right. Best I can tell from looking at the cable is that it terminates on at the house on the right.

    If I want to them to remove the cable off our property is there any problems likely to be encountered in asking them to do this? Currently we are customers of NTL.


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  • #2
    98-00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭98-00


    Just realised I mentioned a company, is that against the rules? Hopefully you can PM me with advice.


  • #3
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,555 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    98-00 wrote: »
    Just realised I mentioned a company, is that against the rules? Hopefully you can PM me with advice.
    Its fine in these circumstances as you are in no way attempting to plug them.


  • #4
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    This has been discussed before and the conclusion was they some sort of legal right to go across, if you have signed a contract. I dunno if it in the contract or not. But you can't touch it. Obviously you can ask them to remove it, but it may kill the connection for the rest of the street. Of just the next door like you believe.

    It wouldn't be so bad if they were done tidily but they are usually very badly and messily installed.


  • #5
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    BostonB wrote: »
    It wouldn't be so bad if they were done tidily but they are usually very badly and messily installed......


    ......... and NTL work done by eastern european contractors who can barely speak two words of english to you (when it suits them to have no english) and make absolute sh!t of your garden and house when they come in to drill a hole in the wall and install a cable or 2.:mad:


  • #6
    98-00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭98-00


    The reason I ask is, I'm seeing if I can get the property divided and I don't plan on using the cable service so I don't see why they should run a cable across my property if I don't use it.
    The cable and house are set back from the road by about 30ft, if the house was on boundary hanging from the building I wouldn't mind so much.
    I remember hearing one time that it could cost up £6000 to get them to remove it, unless you had them sign a form at the beginning saying they would remove it on request without charge.


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  • #7
    Carlow52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Carlow52


    muffler wrote: »
    Its fine in these circumstances as you are in no way attempting to plug them.

    What about unplug as in this case.:)

    Re the OP's question, its in the fine print and if the cable was there when you bought the house then its game over on a freebie move basis.

    What do you mean by over your garden but u would be okay if it was on the wall?


  • #8
    98-00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭98-00


    [QUOTE=What do you mean by over your garden but u would be okay if it was on the wall?[/QUOTE]

    By over the garden I mean it crosses the property 40ft from the road front going from the house on the left to the house on the right. It also happens to be right where I would plan to build.


  • #9
    psicic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭psicic


    Have you contacted UPC yet? If so, what was their response?

    You may well need to take proper legal advice, but maybe some of the following will help.

    First off, are you in receipt of some type of concession for having this cable on your land? If so, there are t&cs attached to this concession which you should have a copy of. If you don't have a copy of these t&cs, ask UPC for them... (If you weren't given a copy and if they are unpalatable, you can consider disputing them because you weren't given a copy of them.)

    Second, there can't be an assumption that UPC have the right to have the cable on your land. If you are not in receipt of a concession, and the cable was there before you bought the house, ask to see a copy of the contract where UPC arranged to put this cable in in the first place. My parents house had a UPC cable across it - put in back in the 50s before RTE Relays was even called RTE Relays.

    Now my parents never realised they could get a concession, but when I explored the issue for them, they remembered that back in the 40s or 50s, my grandfather had gotten some very menial job done (like getting the gutters painted) in exchange for putting the cable accross the garden. This lead to 3 realisations:
    1) such a one-off trade back when the house was in someone else's name couldn't sign away land rights in pertpetuity
    2) there was zero chance UPC had a record of this arrangement - but weren't going to move the cable unless someone asked them to
    3) rerouting cables and concessions is something UPC deal with regularly

    Approach UPC and, in my opinion, you should be able to work something out.


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