The other side of that brick wall is the integral garage, so not much point in getting in there - only to have to drill back out again?
I've taken a picture of the inside of the front door - please see below.
See the box in section that the red brolly is pointing at - the cable from the outside must end up inside that box in. It must then go inside the wall (behind the plasterboard) and along to the left off the picture, to where the master socket is.
I am thinking of getting an electrician to come in and see what he thinks the options would be, to install some sort of trunking through that box in section maybe.
I don't want cabling clipped to the skirting near where shoes are being thrown around - it would surely be a matter of time before the cable was damaged.
BTW For normal BT lines, I thought I'd heard BT were responsible for everything the "other side of the master socket". Is that correct? What rule is it for after full fibre is installed?
The demarcation point for copper is the NTE, for FTTP it’s the ONT , but in both cases , although the cable upto the demarcation point is Openreach’s responsibility ( if it develops a fault ) , there is and always has been a proviso, that if this cable/equipment is damaged that’s not considered to be fair wear and tear, repair or replacing it could be chargable work
If you wanted to provide trunking from the likely place the cable from outside would enter the hallway to the location you would like the ONT fitting , although probably not really necessary ( from a cable protection point of view ) , if you provide it , the installer isn’t going to refuse to use it.
BT called me with an interesting option - order the new service as a new customer, so keeping the old service active.
Once the new one is installed, I can cancel the old one.
Maybe I have to pay for an extra month on the old service but that's not too bad.
This avoids the situation where they terminate the old service before discussing with me how to install the new one.
Interesting idea I thought