Installation Location from a pole

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Using a "cherry picker" lift might not cause a delay though. They can arrive quite quickly.

My recent (about 6 months ago) FTTC/SOGEA install required access to both ends of the existing drop wire between my house and the pole over the road. At my house the engineer used a ladder, fixed to the wall with drilled anchors (positions discussed with me) which were then filled afterwards with coloured mastic. I rubbed a bit of brick dust into it as a further disguise.

Over the road, even though I've seen many an engineer shimmy up the pole using the usual restraints, he decided on a cherry picker. That turned up relatively quickly while he was away down the road sorting out a suitable cable pair - it was an additional line.

I expect he would have preferred the lift for the work on my house but there's a large oak tree at the entrance to our driveway that means getting it into place is pretty problematic.

I didn't ask where the lift came from, maybe it lives at our local exchange?

[#2]

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@Mr_Paul wrote:

@jab1 

"Or, of course, the CSP and ONT could be installed at ground level and then run up the outside wall to a point the installer was prepared to climb."

If there is any climbing involved at all, even just to clip the new cables to the wall from the eaves down to the CSP and back up again, that implies the use of a ladder - which will, (in theory), mean the installer having to drill a temporary attachment point for his ladder, regardless of the type of work being done whilst at height?

*Assuming that scaffolding is not used.

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My comment from which you took that quote was based solely on my experience. The cable came from the auxiliary pole on our lane, across my neighbours garden to a point just under my eaves, and then down to the CSP - at no point did the Quinns' guy who did the install, quickly and efficiently, do any drilling into my wall.