It’s quite common with housing built it the 1960’s and onwards up until fully ducted became the standard in the very late 1980’s/early 1990’s for all the BT (Openreach) usable jointboxes and ducts to be on one side of the street , the copper cables cross under the road ( TBH , usually also in a duct ) to the other side of the street and then onto the individual houses, so all the accessible infrastructure is on one side, with the exception of very small JB23 boxes on that are no use for FTTP .
When FTTP is provided by OR in these areas , the current policy is to add more infrastructure to the existing infrastructure as and when orders are received, so in this case a new duct from an existing joint box across ( under ) the road to the location of a new jointbox ( it will be built pretty much opposite the existing jointbox ) it’s likely to be the same size as the existing jointbox, from this new jointbox on your side of the road a new duct provided to your home, partially in the footpath and partially under your garden or driveway .
Should any close by neighbours on your side of the street also order FTTP another new duct from this new box to their homes provided, but the same road crossing can be used .
Will the road be closed ?
If it’s a small residential road with hardly any traffic , probably not totally, the contractor will ‘manage’ the minimal traffic flow , the road could be excavated without too much disruption, contractors doing one side and providing a metal plate over the excavation so it can be driven over , then the other side excavated, then full reinstatement once the road crossing is done , then new box built and duct to the house .
Will it be noisy , ?
to a certain extent, you cant do this work silently.
How long will it take ?
probably a couple of days to a week , depending on the contractor,
Once the new infrastructure is built the fibre cabling can be provided from the existing jointbox , through the new road crossing, into the new box and through the new duct to your home …..
