A new internet company is going to dig up my beautiful yard to lay their cables

When you bought the house you signed a document that said it was A OK with you for them to do this. I know, our hood was up in arms last hear when they did it to ours. Of course the neighborhood Karens got them to resod the areas that they tore up.....not thinking that we all dont have St Aug. I had to stop the crew in my yard from laying it down. I was just fine waiting the couple months for the zoysia to re establish.

I assume there is a utility esmnt or ROW through your yard so not much you can do. Modern cable placement should be almost invisible. They shouldn't trench like they used to but use a trenchless method. They replaced the natural gas lines to everyone's house in my hood recently and did horizontal boring from the street so they didn't have to dig up anyone's yard.

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But I remember when I got my sprinklers installed a year or so ago / they shredded my yard and it took forever for it to look normal again. Supposedly it’s the same concept

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Maybe you can take the opportunity to scalp/aerate/topdress or level...making it even better than before.

When AT&T ran fiber in my hood. They didn't mess up any yards. The only place they disturbed the grass was where they installed the access boxes in the ground every few houses. They dug a hole for the boxes 1'x2' sized. Put the box in & put back the grass around the box where needed.
The fiber was run by boring & pulling the fiber through the conduit.

Well my experience is a lot different than others in this thread.

Had ATT fiber and charter was coming through running lines. It's all contracted out so I doubt that matters.

They cut countless ATT fiber lines. Every other house had a temp fiber line run across the front yard for months, mine included. They hit sprinklers, they hit the city water pipe, they knocked out power to the neighborhood for 8 hours.

All in all, they hand dug 7 holes across my front lawn, then they buried the massive bore drill machine in my yard when it was too wet for a machine that large. The tracks were completely underground. It stayed there for 1.5 weeks. I went out raising hell that they were going to pay to have it all fixed just like it was. Of course, none of them spoke English.

They ended up "repairing" it, which was roughly grading it and putting down dead sod. There was no company decals, nothing that I could find to call. I top dressed it a few times and got it back to normal.

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they’ll directional bore the conduit then pull the fiber; the only digging will be at the ends of each bore

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Don't tell him this, just let this dumbass cry like a baby.

You name it and Vexus tore it up in Mandeville.
Main water lines, gas line, AT&T cable, electrical lines.

Destroyed yards and could have cared less !!!!

in 5-7 years you will barely be able to tell where they dug up your yard. 10 years max.

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I will never use this cable internet company because I am perfectly happy with my current provider.

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The silver lining here is that you can use their introductory rates to negotiate a lower rate with your current provider.