New Bt connection... only got a slab!

[Jimbouk]

I would like to get a phone line ( or more to the point broadband) onto the site as soon as possible.

 

I have already got ducting provided by Bt back to their underground junction box installed, this comes out into the middle of our slab.

 

The challenge is that I only have a slab at present,  what have people managed to get Bt to fit a master box into? If I put a weather proof box will that be sufficient? I have additional ducting under the slab, that I can then take the connection off to our caravan, along with its mains power for wifi etc.

 

So what is the minimum?

 

 

Edited February 17, 2017 by Jimbouk

[Nickfromwales]

Just have them put a disconnection point ( DP ) at the start of the duct and connect a temp cable to it. You can leave a drop wire on the fence or even along the ground as it's tough as old boots. Ask them for a master outlet and just cut some holes in a Tupperware box so it stays dry, if you leave it outside of course. 

Do you intend to have a site office / shed / other?

[Jeremy Harris]

As Nick says, but I'd add this, based largely on our experience.

 

BT Openreach (not BT, per se) have changed the rules (and seem to do so regularly!) so one is never sure what applies at any time.  We were told to fit an external BT66 box so that Openreach could terminate their underground cable to it.  I did this, and fitted the BT66 box to the thick fence that houses our electricity meter box, and even ran the cable they supplied, through the ducting they supplied, to that box, leaving it coiled up at the base of the pole, ready for their connection team.  I also ran a length of BT Duct 56 under our slab and up through it, and laid a length of gel cable in that for our in-house connection to the master socket.

When they arrived to fit the master socket and make the connection, they questioned why I'd fitted the BT66 outside.  I told them that was a ruling from them when we started and the bloke then said " we don't do that any more"...................

In your case, I think I'd buy a BT66 box, some gel cable and gel crimps and fit a waterproof housing that will take a master socket and your router, with a means of safely getting power to it, then ask whoever you choose as your supplier to connect you up (they will contract with Openreach for this, you can't get Openreach to do an install without going through a supplier, even if that supplier is the other bit of BT).  With luck, the Openreach guys who turn up will be OK about connecting to an externally mounted master via a BT66, but there's no way to be sure, as you are guaranteed not to get a reliable answer from Openreach themselves.

You can buy the correct type of cable (gel for underground, or plain outdoor cable) and the BT66 box from a few places, including ebay.

[IanR]

1 hour ago, Jimbouk said:

So what is the minimum?

 

 

 

I've been connected up this week by Openreach. I'd pulled the multi-core cable they supplied through the ducting they supplied from the agreed pole on the boundary right through the ducting under my slab and left the cable rolled up at the base of the pole and another roll on top of my slab adjacent to the duct.

 

The Openreach Engineer was happy to connect the Master Socket to the loose cable, leaving sufficient cable length for me to relocate it to my preferred location at a later date.

 

The only thing he did do was splice a twin core cable onto the multi-core as the multi-core do not fit easily into the Master Sockets.

 

I do have my structure up, so I've not got "just" a slab, but he didn't seam concerned about leaving the connection loose.