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Yikes - XFinity has to bury new cable line to my house
So XFinity came out today since I could not get the modem to connect. After doing troubleshooting, the technician determined the main line from their cable box located in my neighbors yard to my house has gone bad and needs to be replaced and buried underground. This sounds super scary to me. Do they essentially dig up my yard? What about the fact that the line needs to go across my driveway as the house connection is on the opposite side from their cable box? I hope they can go underneath my driveway without destroying it. Has anyone experienced this - the burying of a cable line? What about replacing a line where a buried line existed before? Appreciate any knowledge or help.
Thanks, Cindy |
They can tunnel under your driveway with no problem. They may need to dig a short trench (about 3 to 4 feet long) and place some sod, which will eventually blend into your grass. Not a big problem.
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I hade it done up north before we left. Essentially, when they come into a community (like for a new fiber company) they run the infrastructure down the street along the side walk to the box you see (like a water or sprinkler control box) and often times they will not run the service to the house until you become a subscriber. In my case they offered two options, they drill it under the ground or in my case they simply took a shovel and cut a slot into the grass about the depth of a shovel and tucked the cable in under the slice of grass. The latter was done because I had sprinkler lines in the yard. I had to water the disturbed area for a few weeks with garden hose because the grass got shocked and was a little brown for a while. Not sure how they do it down here but is suspect the same. As far as your drive way they most likely would go under not disturbing the concrete. They have been doing this for a while so you should not have major concerns.
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Not an issue. They do it all the time.
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They laid mine into a narrow channel cut into the grass - around 6" down to avoid hitting the irrigation pipe. I had hoped they would run it round the roof but they didn't have the U-pins that would have fastened it to the woodwork. Now when I'm digging out back (I no longer have any grass) I have to be careful not to slice the cable. Luckily they did not need to run it under the driveway.
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They may go the long way around your house and just tuck it into a slit
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Make sure they bury it deep enough or your landscaper might cut it. And make sure they don't cut other lines when digging the trench.
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I imagine xfinity contracts out burning cable like others with usually do poor job?, just be glad you don’t live on corner lot, they tore up my irrigation couple time running neighbors cables so bad I had to re run irrigation main up close to my Villa wall.
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If the existing cable is already underground may be in conduit. All they need to do is feed the new cable through the conduit. That’s what they do here in south Florida.
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Good grief…did you ask the technician about that??? This is not the forum to give you correct info. That said, they’ll almost certainly not tear up you concrete or disturb your landscaping much.
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