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re: A new internet company is going to dig up my beautiful yard to lay their cables
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:56 pm to cgrand
Posted on 6/3/25 at 6:56 pm to cgrand
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quit crying like a girl.
they’ll directional bore the conduit then pull the fiber; the only digging will be at the ends of each bore
This….
They will bore in a half block at a time. They did this in my neighborhood last year, and even when they dug in a yard,there was no trace of it a month or two later. It also gives your property value a bump when there is fiber available.
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Posted on 6/4/25 at 6:51 am to FLTech
If it's AT&T, it was okay at my house. They went under the driveway without any issues. Then they just had to run the line in the lawn to the house and did so with a small motorized device that dropped the cable into a small slit made along its path.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:45 am to FLTech
quote:
they never asked permission to spray paint yellow, orange, red and blue lines all over my yard
quote:
yellow, orange, red and blue
quote:
red and blue
You fricking animal!!!!!!
It’s red, and blue
I will die on this hill with the Oxford comma.
We have to have standards to maintain a functioning society.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 3:30 pm to white perch
quote:at times it feels like the Oxford comma is the only thing holding society together
I will die on this hill with the Oxford comma
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:36 pm to FLTech
Go get yourself a couple of pitbulls and leave them outside.
In all seriousness, we had a company named Tachus who laid fiber optic cable all over kingwood a couple of years ago and it’s been an absolute godsend, we used to have suddenlink for our Internet and it was total dog shite
Comcast laid fiber last year and they were accused of sabotage, it seemed like twice a week that our Mega-reliable fiber was going down while the Comcast crews were “assessing” how they’re going to lay their fiber.
In all seriousness, we had a company named Tachus who laid fiber optic cable all over kingwood a couple of years ago and it’s been an absolute godsend, we used to have suddenlink for our Internet and it was total dog shite
Comcast laid fiber last year and they were accused of sabotage, it seemed like twice a week that our Mega-reliable fiber was going down while the Comcast crews were “assessing” how they’re going to lay their fiber.
This post was edited on 6/5/25 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 6/7/25 at 8:09 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
It's neither grammatically correct nor incorrect to use or omit the Oxford comma.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 8:13 am to FLTech
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they never asked permission to spray paint yellow, orange, red and blue lines all over my yard and next, they’ve never asked permission to dig up my yard to do this.
Technically, the easement is not just your yard. Also, they are marking the utilities.
Fiber optic came to our neighborhood recently and they spray painted, but used underground tunneling and only dug holes where hubs would be located.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 8:59 am to FLTech
It will grow back, I promise.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 6:34 pm to cgrand
quote:
quit crying like a girl.
they’ll directional bore the conduit then pull the fiber; the only digging will be at the ends of each bore
Not necessarily, in my neighborhood, the used a combination of horizontal boring and good ol' fashioned hand trenching. With the lack of "guest workers" maybe the hand trenching option has gone away.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:49 pm to FLTech
As someone who has worked for a utility construction company and just had the water company frick up my yard I’ll tell you the only thing you can do is to plan of fixing it yourself. They don’t give a frick and don’t really have to. I paid my yard guy $100 to fix the sod they threw on top of a pile of dirt.
This post was edited on 6/8/25 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 8:57 am to weadjust
quote:
When AT&T ran fiber in my hood. They didn't mess up any yards
When AT&T ran it in my yard, the messed it up. They also started at 6:30 on a Saturday morning, which pissed me off more.
It took at least 6 weeks and me doing my own leveling for the yard to look somewhat normal. I swore I never would use AT&T because of it.
But, I did use AT&T fiber eventually, and it kicks Cox Cable's arse.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 1:25 pm to FLTech
quote:I don't know why I didn't think about this.
Is there anything I can do about this?
If you can find out where they are digging, why not remove the grass with a sharp shovel or sod cutter, preserve it, and add it back after they are done...
Posted on 6/11/25 at 5:27 pm to FLTech
Are we neighbors?
They dug 4 holes in my yard, what has been filled in so far looks pretty good, much better than where the city had to fix a water line a couple of weeks ago
They just piled dirt everywhere, didn’t try to keep the sod & left their empty water bottles in the yard
They dug 4 holes in my yard, what has been filled in so far looks pretty good, much better than where the city had to fix a water line a couple of weeks ago
They just piled dirt everywhere, didn’t try to keep the sod & left their empty water bottles in the yard
Posted on 6/12/25 at 8:07 am to FLTech
This happened to me and they "fixed" my yard by throwing grass seed down after, which was the wrong type of fescue. They didn't level it, so my yard still had a deep depression line across it.
I raised a lot of hell because it fricked up the natural drainage slope of my lawn and eventually they came out and threw more dirt down and gave me $200 for grass seed. I sat out there in my 4-wheeler rolling over the dirt as they dumped it to compress it and kept getting them to pour more. They were pissed.
I know they had the right, but they did not "make commercially reasonable efforts to repair the property to it's prior state" which is part of the deal.
ETA:
We have a ton of sub-surface stone in my area (East TN) and they basically dug a ditch 1-2 ft deep in my front yard. Then "filled it", but didn't roll over it and it compressed or washed away in the next rain (included the shitty grass seed).
I raised a lot of hell because it fricked up the natural drainage slope of my lawn and eventually they came out and threw more dirt down and gave me $200 for grass seed. I sat out there in my 4-wheeler rolling over the dirt as they dumped it to compress it and kept getting them to pour more. They were pissed.
I know they had the right, but they did not "make commercially reasonable efforts to repair the property to it's prior state" which is part of the deal.
ETA:
We have a ton of sub-surface stone in my area (East TN) and they basically dug a ditch 1-2 ft deep in my front yard. Then "filled it", but didn't roll over it and it compressed or washed away in the next rain (included the shitty grass seed).
This post was edited on 6/12/25 at 8:13 am
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