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gm85

Question about Bell Fibre Installation

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Hi Everyone,

I live in a neighbourhood that has Bell fibre construction underway. Every house has a handhole on the front lawn and a fibre runs up to the house in a buried 3/4" flex conduit. The fibre is looped at the power meter, ready for installation by a Bell technician.

When a customer signs up for Fibre services, what method does the technician use to install the fibre into the house?

Since the cable is run in a conduit up to my house, I'd like to take some extra steps to protect the fibre and clean up the wiring on the side of the house.

Ideally, I'd like to drill a hole for the conduit myself and install an L Adapter to feed the conduit inside (something like this)

I'm just not sure if Bell would approve this type of installation.

Thanks

Posted Aug 5, 2022, 4:18 AM UTC

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Pavel6969•

Slack box on the outside. If you have a hole done the tech will love it. You can definitely use that type of conduit.

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gm85OP•

Good to know, thanks! I think I'll drill the hole, but hold off on piecing everything together until the tech arrives as it sounds like I'll need to accomodate the slack box.

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WanderingMoose78•

Just not many sharp bends in the conduit or if you want to help bell tech out run some nylon rope inside your conduit as well so he can tape on to pull it through

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gm85OP•

Yeah fortunately the L adapter will be large enough to avoid any sharp bends in the fibre. My network rack is on the other side of the exterior wall where the fibre was laid

At this point there's just a loop of fibre running out of a conduit, so it sounds like I'll drill the hole, but not piece things together since it sounds like they'll need to install a slack box outside.

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dsluser•

I have done exact same thing as you planned to do. I rather drill hole than let a Bell tech do it. I have the conduit buried from the power meter to my basement and then I have the L adapter with a rope inside to pull the patch cord from the slack box.

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gm85OP•

Cool so I'm assuming you have the slack box at the power meter and then ran the conduit from the slack box to inside your house?

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dsluser•

Yes.

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shelms488•

Since this is a few months old, it may already be done, but if you use an LB (what the L adapter is called.) on a piece of conduit coming out of the ground, you need to use an expansion fitting because if you don't then as the seasons change and temps fluctuate the conduit will expand and contract with the fluctuations and will cause the conduit to crack over time.

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gm85OP•

Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up running a 1.5" conduit as a sleeve over the existing conduit. The 1.5" is only about a foot tall and goes about an inch below the ground.... pretty much acts like an expansion fitting.

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