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There is an old wooden telegraph pole just over the road from our house. It has cables going out to 7-8 houses including ours. The cable to our house has snapped. I have coiled the loos cable at the base of the pole but still have a length dangling down the side of our house.
We still have phone, internet etc so the cable seems redundant.
Who do I contact to remove their wire from my house and 'hopefully' remove the pole too if it is unused.
Most likely Openreach.
I have coiled the loos cable at the base of the pole
Seems like an excessive response.
I have coiled the loos cable at the base of the pole
Seems like an excessive response.
😆 😆
But yeah it'll be Openreach that owns / maintains it.
It'll be Openreach who actually maintain it but you will probably have to go through BT to get them to come out. Openreach work for service providers, not for the general public.
Deffo Openreach. The pole outside our house was surveyed a couple of weeks ago. I spoke to guy doing it and he had a record of its age. Fifty five years old!
Is it just phone lines on it? Some poles are shared by the electricity network and the phone company.
Some poles were shared but the electricity company moved off them and the phone company take them over. Records for these can be ropey though.
WCA - it wasn't jumping around and sparking whilst you coiled it was it??? 🤔
I spoke to guy doing it and he had a record of its age. Fifty five years old!
They spend months in a vat of tar to get the level of preservative they need. No idea if that's still permitted as it was probably a vat of creosote like stuff.
There are a few old ones around, a few years ago when I was still climbing I had a few over 80 years old. The age is engraved into the wood as two digits, there is also the height and strength i.e 9L is 9m Light, 9m is 9 metre Medium, 10s would be 10 metre Stout.
The other letters are manufacturer and wood species.
As the wire is down but your service is still working, I would go to the Openreach website, there is an option to contact them. If it was your working line I would suggest your service provider, but if its still working and not affected I suspect they will not be interested.
Report it as a damaged/dangerous wire to your Cp or 150 they will, pass it on to Openreach, who will send somebody out to recover both ends, 4 hour response job.The date of preservation is stamped/carved on all Telephone poles,along with the size and girth of the pole,also place of preserve(code).This is 3m from the bottom of pole, depending on depth its usually around waist height.Earliest one I have climbed recently was a GPO 1954
Beaten to it again by Spooky 😂
This place is amazing.  I need an old (like canal era) pole ( orior two, now I think of it) to confirm its historical significance. Any takers for a PM?
I'm not sure what the question is due to typo, but feel free to PM me if you want 🙂