Replacing a fascia with a BT overhead line attached

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smt3mm

• 2 Aug 2011

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I want to replace a simple stretch of fascia that has gone rotten. However, it has the overhead cable attached to it by a bracket with 3 screws.

Am I allowed to take this off and put it on the new fascia or do I have to ask BT to come and do it?

Am I correct in thinking that they would just screw through to the rafter behind or is there a special type of bracket they would use?

Thanks

Stuart

 

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• 2 Aug 2011

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smt3mm said:

I want to replace a simple stretch of fascia that has gone rotten. However, it has the overhead cable attached to it by a bracket with 3 screws.

Am I allowed to take this off and put it on the new fascia or do I have to ask BT to come and do it?

Am I correct in thinking that they would just screw through to the rafter behind or is there a special type of bracket they would use?

Thanks

Stuart

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Strictly speaking you're possibly not allowed but how will they ever know provided you do the job properly.

Bracket 22 is a ring on a triangular flat plate with three countersunk
fixing screw holes. Bracket 32 has a cranked arm with ring at one end
square plate at the other. Curly wurly is another name for the pigtail or
Dropwire Clamp 10A

https://www.systemstl.co.uk/viewcategoryitems.php?categoryid=331

There are also several ebay sellers.

 

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I have done so on many occasions just be careful and use some decent screws
























uote="smt3mm";p="2067893"]I want to replace a simple stretch of fascia that has gone rotten. However, it has the overhead cable attached to it by a bracket with 3 screws.

Am I allowed to take this off and put it on the new fascia or do I have to ask BT to come and do it?

Am I correct in thinking that they would just screw through to the rafter behind or is there a special type of bracket they would use?

Thanks

Stuart[/quote]

 

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• 3 Aug 2011

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Be very careful trying to relieve the tension in the overhead span and re-tension it afterwards. It is a very good way of pulling yourself off a ladder.

For this reason, BT / Openreach engineers tension dropwire spans from the pole end, where they can secure themselves with a pole belt.

 

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• 3 Aug 2011

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Remove a couple of tiles and tether it to a rafter. I could attach it to my old man and it would not pull it off!

When you screw the tri plate back on make sure that the screws you use go through into decent material.

 

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• 7 Aug 2011

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as noseall says, they are not heavy.

 

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• 8 Aug 2011

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Just a heads up for any new DIY'ers reading this post. Always make certain that it's a comm's wire and not an overhead power cable - take a tip from one who tried!

 

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• 8 Aug 2011

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oh my god... stick to paint brushes

 

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• 8 Aug 2011

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Datarebal, i didn't get the gist of your comment, what did you mean?

 

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smt3mm

• 9 Aug 2011

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TicklyT said:

Be very careful trying to relieve the tension in the overhead span and re-tension it afterwards. It is a very good way of pulling yourself off a ladder.

For this reason, BT / Openreach engineers tension dropwire spans from the pole end, where they can secure themselves with a pole belt.

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Yes, that had been going through my mind as I was thinking about the steps to complete the job. It might be the one thing that stops me doing it because there is nothing on the corner of the house that is good to attach me or the ladder to.

 

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smt3mm

• 12 Aug 2011

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As a side note, I've been walking round our estate and quite a few cables now go to rawlbolts in the wall. I presume that coming along after a plastic fascia is up mean engineers can't see where the rafters are behind and the wall is the next best thing.