remove external cable

dobkfz

I’m about to do some home improvements, both inside & out of my house.
The large TV cable running along my external wall just under my guttering is going to be in my way and making things very awkward. I don’t have cable TV myself, nor have my next door neighbours.
My plan is to contact the cable company and ask them to remove their cable from my property. When I say remove it I mean take it away altogether not just rerun it.
My question is..
Is there any members that has some experience of this in the past that might give me advice based on their experiences or knowledge.
I’m guessing this been Ireland I will probably be billed to have this cable removed even though I don’t have cable TV and never will. I’m thinking there is probably some legislation there to allow this cable to run across my property. So before I contact them I would welcome any reply’s……
Thanks…..

Jimjay

I have seen people cut the cable off themselves and I have seen people demand that the cable is re-routed which it has been.
I install sky tv and have seen disgruntled people cut the cable off their homes after they have had an alternative installed. I do not know what consequences they had.
Some people are given free cable tv and broadband instead of the cable being removed after a request. As far as I know they cannot make you have the cable there or charge you to remove it. This is not official but from what customers have told me after arguing with the cable company about the cable on their homes.

Beaver1

its your houese tell them you want it removed by x date and if its not your entitled to take it off yourself.

dobkfz

Sounds good so far
Thanks for the reply’s

coylemj

Is the cable actually in use? What happened in my estate is that the builder ran a coax cable from house to house under the gutters but Cablelink (as they were then) decided to come in via the Eircom ducts so the cable along the roofs was never used.

com7

you might nt be using it now or think you might nt need it but down the line circumstances might change and they might nt put it back then just worth thinking about

bob11

There may have been an existing wayleave agreement in place with a previous owner ..

Be careful before you start cutting cables ...

This has been discussed a number of times before:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74986673

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67314132&postcount=5

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056426511

dobkfz

Excellent info Bob11 thank you very much for the links, there a great help and make interesting reading..

Thanks again...

Beaver1

wayleave is only between upc and the customer which signed the contract, no-one can sign a contract for a different person in the future. he is entitled to remove the cable if he so wishs, I know it wouldnt be fair on the neighbours but upc really ignore these requests hoping they will go away.

watty

not true.
If you buy a property any existing way leave still apply.

Beaver1

not true, if a person buys a house and a wayleave agreement is not disclosed to the buyer then they buyer buys the house as if the wayleave contract does no exist. so Im sure that upc or a previous seller did not tell the buyer that there was a wayleave agreement/contract, also having a upc cable going across your house does not mean that a wayleave contract was ever signed as in the early day people were delighted to get the cable and the cable was just put on peoples house without any contract.

the only waylease acts that applies for the sale of a house is with electricity because Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 states It is not possible to incorporate a break clause into a terminable electricity wayleave agreement, Owners need to be aware that any terminable electricity wayleave they complete can be retained to encumber their property now or at any time in the future, this law does not apply to cable tv.