Getting services underground

[guyspartacus]

Morning all

 

Progressing slowly with the planning stage of my build and working on services

 

I've had surveys done by Openreach and UKPN regarding putting our feed's from overhead to underground.

 

Waiting on prices for ducting from both for us to put in ourselves before asking them to pull cables only.

 

Openreach was a strange one, they said they needed £338 to do the survey and sent me an invoice but when I went to pay it - it said it had already been paid ?‍♂️

There's also a BT box on my property with fibreoptic cable but Openreach can't actually provide me with access to it as they can only replace like for like.

 

Can I expect extortionate prices for 22m of grey ducting from them and from UKPN?

 

Also - I'm not sure where our water main goes, it pops up to the rear of the property in a small iron pipe and there's a meter at the front. Can I run a new 32mm pipe to the meter and get it changed over by the provider? That would be ideal as we would know where it goes and that it's man enough for what we need.

 

Thanks,