Is your quote a desktop quote , to give a ballpark figure or the paid for survey that’s the basis of contractual quote , so you have paid around £300 already ? , with FTTPod there is a free desktop survey , and if the costs are not off-putting , you pay for a ‘proper’ survey .
If a free desktop survey , then it’s possible that although you reside in a DIG area , at some point in the past , to restore copper pair service , a new duct and cable were installed to get around a fault on the buried cable , this wouldn’t be known at a desktop survey, but that’s why a desktop survey is just a guide to the likely cost , not a contractual price .
If it’s based on a ‘paid for’ survey , AFAIK, the costings are not broken down into individual sections, like footpath to house , so if your ‘garden’ were ( for example ) 10m in soft and 1m in footway , it would simply be included in the entire excavation quote , so if ( for argument sake ) a further 30m in soft some distance away from your address were also needed , and an extra 49m in footway , remote from your house , the quote would be for 40m soft and 50m footway in total , you wouldn’t know the way those totals were broken down .
If it’s a desktop survey price , and you subsequently pay for a bespoke survey, if the duct that exists was overlooked, then a reduction may be made , but it’s just as likely that the ‘real’ survey would uncover costs that were not part of the desktop quote .
