Eircom put a cable at head height behind my house

sbmayo

Hi

I live on a sloping site overlooking the sea out the back. Eircom recently installed a cable that runs behind my house to give someone internet access about 20 metres further down ther road. They did this because (apparently) a team of builders cut the old cable to the house as it was in their way. Rather than insist they put it back Eircom have ran one that now goes past my back window at head height, ruining the view and looking very slapdash as it has a knot in it too! Is there anything I can do to get them to re-route it? There was no consultation or anything, I just came home one day and it was there...thanks

com7

Request that it be moved or snip snip ...it s contractors did that now so they do nt care where they ran it ..

sbmayo

So are all their cables done by local contractors?

I don't want to cause a problem for my neighbour so no snip snip...

Wanderer78

request it to be moved, involve your neighbor in the process

mondeoman72

I had a similar issue with an installation. Circet the contractor put in a cable across a farm gate and were supposed to come back and heighten it. Never did, tractor pulled it down and Vodafone told to get lost. They dont care

csirl

They've no right to run a new cable thru your land without permission - ask for it to be re-routed to the original route/height.

Larbre34

Its not through his land by the sound of it.

But, you've no entitlement to a view, of course, but maybe have a word with the neighbour to get it buried, out of courtesy.

If he gets the heavy hint with you that you're not at all happy, and that snippy snippy may indeed be an eventuality, he'll be sure to get it organised.

com7

Its all contractors that do that work for eir & vodafone & sky etc , I guarantee you they ll ignore all requests and hope you ll go away .....unless you take some action ie accidently hit it etc

sbmayo

Is there any kind of limit about how close to your head these cables have to be? When I'm in my back yard it is about 3 or 4 feet away from my head

The Continental Op

OP, what type of cable is it? Optical (fibre) or electrical phone cable?

sbmayo

Phone I believe

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121614267#Comment_121614267

Thats no big deal for them to move. Fibre optic cable would be involve a lot more effort.

RetroEncabulator

Not really. Overhead line is overhead line. They’re only drops to houses. In both cases they’ll just run a new overhead ‘wire’. They’re not going to split and join either of them. It’ll just be a new run pulled off a reel.

One is connected into an optical distribution point (DP) with ports on it using a fairly simple splice into a little connector. It takes minutes. The other is wired to a copper distribution point electrically.

It’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other in terms of effort.

FTTH fibre is as least as easy to install as phone lines if not easier in some ways. Only issue being it doesn’t like sharp bends.

Jim_Hodge

Is the line at head height from the ground or at head height when viewed from your windows. There's a huge difference.