BT Line & Tree Dismantle

[Hobbsurf]

Folks - Quoting for a job with a part dead Ash, full dismantle, about 40ft, heavy decay & fungus very evident, leading to MEWP access only.

 

2 BT lines thru' canopy that are going to take hits - don't care how careful, it's going to happen.

 

Ideally - "hello BT, It's LGS Tree Surgery & can we get the line temporarily removed, (as the tree is going to do it sometime by itself anyway) whilst we carry out work"?

 

Reality - How much to do something like this, despite as a proactive request?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

 

Russ

[ukminch]

Surely if you utilise the correct mewp you should be able to get round them no problems? It's going to cost you the same/more to have them taken down and put back up than to break them!

[eggsarascal]

Surely if you utilise the correct mewp you should be able to get round them no problems? It's going to cost you the same/more to have them taken down and put back up than to break them!

 

Or you could get in the cherry picker and disconnect the phone lines then reconnect them when you've finnised. Not that I would condone such behaviour mind.

[ukminch]

Not me but if i did I'd make sure I took a photo on my phone so I knew which two wires were connected where!

[Kenty]

It cost me £140 around 6 years ago to get a disconnect/reconnect, but that was when they answered the phone.

It's Openreach you need to contact.

Good luck getting to speak to someone.

[Will Heal]

Some one I know recently pulled a phone line down off a house and snapped it. His manager rang his mate at bt and got him to talk him through fixing it. Took 5 mins so can't be that difficult.

[john p]

I've snapped a few, always been fixed for free, just get the homeowner to call in a fault

[JaySmith]

If you see an engineer working locally they will often come and drop a line for you and put it back up for a drink. Obviously not the offical way but the other option is to call

Openreach but be prepared to be passed on, put on hold etc

[Duncansimpson]

If it's a single line going to a house it's really straight forward to take the wires out of the box. Sometimes there's a big loop pinned up somewhere and you can get enough slack to pull it out of the way. If it's a main line with hundreds of wires be very very careful although the are surprisingly robust.

[treequip]

Or you could get in the cherry picker and disconnect the phone lines then reconnect them when you've finnised. Not that I would condone such behaviour mind.

 

I can hear them now, "my broadband isn't working"