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Andy169
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4 months ago
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Having tarmac laid over existing Virgin cables.

 
 

 

 

I am wanting to have this part of my drive tarmacked. As can be seen the conduit comes up before the end of the area to be covered, for the cables to going through the edging stone. Leaving bare cables exposed. The conduit will not push up right to the edge and is too high at this point anyway. 

1. Will the cables and or conduit withstand the heat of tarmac?

2. It would be preferable if this cable could be re-routed lower?  What ideas do people have please? What can Virgin installers do with this to improve?

Many thanks

 

Cable run
driveway
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tarmac
  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    4 months ago

    I would suspect hot tarmac will not do the bare cable any good !  It would be better to bury that cable a bit deeper. In fact IMHO that whole job looks terrible, there should be no cables visible on either side of that kerbstone.

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    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    4 months ago

    I would suspect hot tarmac will not do the bare cable any good !  It would be better to bury that cable a bit deeper. In fact IMHO that whole job looks terrible, there should be no cables visible on either side of that kerbstone.

    If you wait here a day or two a VM Mod will pick this up and discuss directly with you.

  • Andy169's avatar
    Andy169
    Joining in
    4 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply. That's my thoughts that the whole job looks terrible and really needs redoing before the tarmac. I am sure Virgin could improve this.

    • Carley_S's avatar
      Carley_S
      Forum Team
      4 months ago

      Hi Andy169 

      Welcome back to the community forums 

      Sorry to hear of your concern with the exposed cables, I'm not sure if a standard rebury would be enough, so I think it would be best to seek further advice on this. In the meantime, please join me on private message so I can locate your account and pass account security. You can see your private messages at the top of the page, in the envelope icon or if you're using a smaller device, you can see your private messages by clicking on the Virgin Media logo at the top right and selecting 'Messages' from the drop down.