Finding phone cables in garden.

confessor82

Trying to get fiber broadband installed in my house but the eir engineer said he cannot complete the connection.
There is a two inch pipe coming from the foot path toward the house and goes most of the way to the house... but there's a one inch pipe coming into the actual hole in the wall at the house. This is not thick enough to get another wire down. Tried following the one inch pipe back but it goes into a concrete drain and cannot find the other end of it.
I've dug up half the garden looking for the two inch pipe but cannot find where this pipe is. Is there anyway of locating this wire?

degsie

http://www.ude.ie/sales/pipe-detection/

tsue921i8wljb3

Was going to suggest hiring something like degsie posted. I've never used one so don't know how effective they are.

http://www.hss.ie/g/49524/cable-and-pipe-locator-cat-4.html

fritzelly

Chances are it joins the other pipe under the concrete and nowhere in the garden
The ducting usually follows paths, driveways (or under them) to protect them - not thru the middle of garden for obvious reasons

Check if an overhead solution is possible

confessor82

fritzelly wrote: »

Chances are it joins the other pipe under the concrete and nowhere in the garden
The ducting usually follows paths, driveways (or under them) to protect them - not thru the middle of garden for obvious reasons

Check if an overhead solution is possible

No overhead solution possible. If the pipe was put down under the path then I might have no choice but to put down a new two inch pipe. Just don't know how I go about getting it connected under the concrete path...

fritzelly

If you are up for it
https://www.eir.ie/.content/pdf/NewDucting.pdf

Should really be done by someone who has experience of it and knows what they are doing