Fibre installation - how deep should it be buried?

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My Vumatel installation was done very quickly - just over an hour.

I'm just interested in what the expectation (of others) is on the connection to the house.

Mine goes about 7m through a lawn... but the pipe is buried about 1cm from the surface. In fact I will have to cover it with some soil because I can see it in places.

Would you say that is fine? I can't really think of concerns myself... I don't have anyone sticking forks into my lawn.
 
GoB said:
My Vumatel installation was done very quickly - just over an hour.

I'm just interested in what the expectation (of others) is on the connection to the house.

Mine goes about 7m through a lawn... but the pipe is buried about 1cm from the surface. In fact I will have to cover it with some soil because I can see it in places.

Would you say that is fine? I can't really think of concerns myself... I don't have anyone sticking forks into my lawn.
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Wait, what?

That's just stupid on the part of the installation team.
 
1cm, are you sure? That's not even buried. That's just been trampled on.
 
they did mine about 15-20 cm, about 3m length, still don't think its deep enough, though has not come up yet
 
I'll post a pic later... just thought I could get them to bury it deeper if needed, since I'm still going to wait 2 weeks or so for activation. It's probably 30 minutes work to trench that to 15cm, so they were being a bit lazy.
 
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The old rule was 1200 mm then it was relaxed to 600 mm for main cable runs and 300 mm for this sort of thing.
Anything shallower is just looking for endless problems.

What you should do is get your gardener in and dig a trench at least 1 and half spade depths deep and place the pipe run and cable at the bottom of it.

OR,

tell the supplier to come back and do a proper job!
 
My pipe has a car driving over it daily, and it has not affected the fibre at all. so you should not have any problems.
 
Thanks for the tip. Reminded me to add this to my check list when they finally get to my place.

But then I am hoping they will use what I have already provided. My connection pipe is buried with new water pipes I laid and is 1 200 mm deep.
 
Geoff.D said:
Thanks for the tip. Reminded me to add this to my check list when they finally get to my place.

But then I am hoping they will use what I have already provided. My connection pipe is buried with new water pipes I laid and is 1 200 mm deep.
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I laid my pipes before hand, and they used my pipes, so cant see how yours would be any different, just don't glue the corner pieces until the install, as the fibre can get stuck in those.
 
In our complex, all trenching was done to a depth of 300mm. After trenching was done, I was asked to walk through the complex and approve the trenching before they continued with anything further.
 
DERoestorf said:
I laid my pipes before hand, and they used my pipes, so cant see how yours would be any different, just don't glue the corner pieces until the install, as the fibre can get stuck in those.
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No corner pieces and no joints. One solid multi-duct with 4 sub ducts specifically for fibre all the way They can blow the fibre in right to the point where I want them to place the ONT.
 
DERoestorf said:
I laid my pipes before hand, and they used my pipes, so cant see how yours would be any different, just don't glue the corner pieces until the install, as the fibre can get stuck in those.
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Did you lay conduit?
 
GoB said:
It's going to be 1cm below the ground level.. View attachment 424346View attachment 424348
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That is just bad work. I would complain.

Outside your property, the depths are regulated and stipulated on way leaves and permits. Normally 600mm as a bare minimum, some places even deeper. Inside your property (as it's private property) there's no regulations and they can pretty much do what they want.

What they have done in YOUR instance however, is shocking. I would ask them to come back, and at bare minimum work on 300mm
 
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