What's this wire?

[HERTS P&D]

Hi Guys,

I'm digging my fottings for my front wall and i've come across this wire next to the BT wire..................anyone know what it is?..................is it a pulling wire?

Andy

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• 18 Apr 2010
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[GaryMo]

It looks like an SY cable to me.

Have you got any power outside, garden lights for example?

 

[johno12345]

Looks like an armoured telephone cable to me

 

[HERTS P&D]

I thought the white wire was a BT wire?

I didn't know that you can get an armoured BT wire?

Andy

 

[HERTS P&D]

The property was built in 1974, if that makes any difference.


Andy

 

[HERTS P&D]

Ref: Garymo

The cable comes from the street/pavement and goes towards the house and there are no garden lights.

Andy

 

[johno12345]

The armoured one looks original, its a bit odd seeing a white indoor grade telephone cable buried unprotected. Id make a guess that the armoured one has failed at some point and been replaced by the white one.

Can you see where your telephone cables enter the house? usually via an external junction box. If you can only see one of the cables, have a gentle dig around for the other one

 

[HERTS P&D]

The front footings are approx. 6metres away from the house. The house has concrete floors. So if this is a phone line then it is not used as we are connected to a Virgin Cable line.


So I take it, it must be an old redundant cable? It just looked too new.


Andy

 

[johno12345]

its not your cable tv then is it? That service is always delivered using two cables, often joined together. Not seen them looking like that though.

 

[Monkeh]

That could well be coax and a phone line from Virgin, then. The use of indoor phone cable is fairly typical of the quality you can expect from them..

 

[johno12345]

another giveaway for it being cable tv would be the depth that its buried at, about 3" is usual

 

[Monkeh]

another giveaway for it being cable tv would be the depth that its buried at, about 3" is usual

Out of sight, out of mind. Until you stick a spade in.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Hi
I' just taken more pics.

As you see the first pic is showing the Virgin cable in the green sleeving above the other cable. I have Virgin put in last year.

The second pic is from pavement to house.

Andy

 

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[Monkeh]

Odd. Track it back and see where they enter the house, and what they're connected to.