Good grief. What a picture!

boosacnoodle:

 

Good grief. What a picture!

 

Seems crazy that your neighbour put up with this cable hanging outside the garage like that

shk292:

 

boosacnoodle:

 

Good grief. What a picture!

 

 

Seems crazy that your neighbour put up with this cable hanging outside the garage like that

 

I have to put up with the one to my neighbours being lower than the copper over my driveway because the lazy tech that did the upgrade just attached it to a lower part of the house. Not much you can do about it other than hope that eventually a flexibin truck or similar takes it out and they re-install it higher up.

@richms ... a friend had similar after neighbour had a fibre cable run across front of their house/yard.

I told him to ask the tech to cable tie them together ... which he did and it is much neater with just one high up line of black rather than two with one drooping lower.

OT: Makes Christchurch people appreciate the underground installs.

apm45:

 

Update for anyone interested. The Chorus techs came on Saturday and very quickly identified the issue. Turns out the fibre cable from the street to my house (downhill from the street) had been rubbing against my neighbour's garage. Probably installed originally with too much slack. The crazy part is that the water had been travelling inside the cable down to the house, along the roof line, down the wall, under the house and back up into the ONT. Total run maybe 30m+?. Over 4L of water came into the house over a 24 hour period!

 

They did a good job fixing it, repositioning the cable and adding a joint outside the house so it can't happen again. 

 

not sure what joint they use but water can still go through most joins. with a downhill run there is a ton of force pushing that water along. if anything a drain at a low point is better.

Fair point, and I don't know anything about the jointing methods, but the main change is that the cable route has been tweaked enough that it shouldn't be touching anything on the way to the house any more, and so there should be no way for the water to get inside of the cable again.

tweake:

 

not sure what joint they use but water can still go through most joins. with a downhill run there is a ton of force pushing that water along. if anything a drain at a low point is better.

 

It will most likely have an ETP on the side of the house. This is where the outer sheathing is broken, the fibers are stored in a loop - and there is probably also a splice in there too.  
That allows water to drip out of the first cable and out via a drip hole in the bottom of the ETP enclosure.   

A second cable then runs from ~mid air inside the ETP enclosure into the house. 

This will greatly reduce the chance of water dripping out of one cable and into another, within the ETP enclosure.