Shifting box in pathway

[danger8]

 

Hi all

i have a double drive but single dropped kerb that I want to extend. 
there’s a BT distribution box buried into the path that will need moving to allow this, I’ve had a quote from a contractor to get the drive path sorted but he won’t touch the box. 
talked to open reach and they have quoted a site survey (£342!) to go have a look before the quote to do the works. 

I was hoping to just lower it to allow the slope onto the drive

will this cost me a fortune??

the survey was costly enough to make me think twice about the whole thing. 

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[Keith_Beddoe]

@danger8 

This has nothing to do with BT Retail.

You need to contact Openreach, which I think you have done already.

https://www.openreach.com/building-developers-and-projects/altering-our-network

Its like to cost you thousands, possibly tens of thousand, for the network to be re-routed.

I would forget about it.

[danger8]

Yeah the survey was from openreach. 

would they be able to lower the box underneath without having to move the whole thing? I’m not looking for much, just enough for a bit of a slope

[Keith_Beddoe]

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@danger8 wrote:

Yeah the survey was from openreach. 

would they be able to lower the box underneath without having to move the whole thing? I’m not looking for much, just enough for a bit of a slope

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Sorry, I have no idea, but I think it highly unlikely, as there would be solid ducts entering the box from all directions, and they could not be moved.

[Andyw350]

So, as of 2022 the cost of the 5 minute survey is £700 ,same price for small or large surveys, but get this, for open reach to do the work could be upto and over £4000 ,so on top of the contractor to drop kerb, not cheap.