Engineer work outside my house

[fazz0062]

Hi, I requested to get virgin media on the 5/4 and still don’t have it. Engineers were meant to come yesterday to do some work outside my house but never turned up. I called them to find out and they said that as the box it more than 3 meters away from my house they need council permission. Now I’m ok to wait for them to get the permission but my problem is is that virgin media are going to have to cut across the road to get a wire from my house to their box. Now it’s a narrow road which leads in to a cup de sac and if they work there it will stop people getting in and out via car. My question is , is how long would it take them to do the actual work and is it likely they will get permission from the council?

[LittleMick73]

Hi I think this is the least of your worries. Regards Micky

[fazz0062]

Oh no… why you say that?

[goslow]

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@fazz0062 wrote:

Oh no… why you say that?

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Have a read through some of the (many) other topics on delayed installations on this forum. Your description has many of the key ingredients for a delayed VM installation (such as a no-show on the day of installation, VM mentioning 'council permission' as a reason for delay, the fact that you mention digging across a road).

You could try this website

https://one.network/

and see if it shows any planned VM activity for your street (it is not a terribly reliable site but might show something)

You should probably also contact your local highway authority and see if VM have actually put in any requests to dig (some past topics have reported VM using this as an excuse for delay but, when the prospective customer has checked, no works applications had been submitted by VM).

[fazz0062]

Oh really!! Thanks for your help! Ill do some digging around 

[jbrennand]

FYI - Re. VM’s recent installation issues - see John’s excellent précis of the situation in message 18 here…

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/QuickStart-set-up-and/Multiple-Failed-Installations-zero-commun...

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In addition to the above points, it has been known for VM to decide that a road crossing and road closure is too costly to undertake for feeding just one connection. In which case they call it "not serviceable". 

[fazz0062]

**bleep** please don’t say that! I’ve waited for fibre for 9 years and everyone around me is all set up now. Sad times