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Can I call cable company and have them remove their cable run?

Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
Time Warner's cable runs from the pole to the side of the house. Cuts through a couple of trees and RIGHT over the middle of my backyard. I no longer use them for service (UVerse). can I call TW and say "remove that cable"? Will they remove it for no charge?

If not, can I just cut it and tell them "oops it broke!" 😎
 
Could you put in a generator and get the electric company to take down their lines to your wall? Or could you dig a well and get the water company to take up the pipe from the street main? I'm curious as to whether there are laws of some kind around utility connections.
 
Printer Bandit said:
who runs cables above ground?

where do you live, nigeria?
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When cable is routed above ground, it is cheaper than trenching.

Many older neighborhoods everywhere use air; much cheaper installation.

You can act like a snob with this post, but next time use common sense.
 
Yup. In my neighbourhood (and in pretty much every older neighbourhood here with detached or semi-detached homes), telephone, electrical, and cable TV all run above ground.

You get buried lines if you live out in the new suburbs out in the boonies, or you're in a condo building or something.
 
Eug said:
You get buried lines if you live out in the new suburbs out in the boonies, or you're in a condo building or something.
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That's us, and they are constantly having to trench roads, and dig up crap under sidewalks. My favorite regular occurrence is when the county pays to pave a road and a week later some comms contractor comes along and trenches it. Air may be ugly, but it's a lot easier to get to when there's an issue.
 
I guess one minor benefit of non-buried lines is their willingness to replace the lines. When I was complaining about cable TV signal, first they gave me an amplifier, but when I complained again, they removed my RG6 and replaced it with RG11.

I highly doubt they would have done that with a buried line. (I think all the buried lines here are RG6.)

P.S. Yes, the replacement of the overhead line was "free", although of course I was paying for cable TV service.
 
Homerboy said:
Time Warner's cable runs from the pole to the side of the house. Cuts through a couple of trees and RIGHT over the middle of my backyard. I no longer use them for service (UVerse). can I call TW and say "remove that cable"? Will they remove it for no charge?

If not, can I just cut it and tell them "oops it broke!" 😎
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Why would they do something for you at no charge? 😵
 
Printer Bandit said:
who runs cables above ground?

where do you live, nigeria?
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Ohhh child things aren't gonna get easier. It's called Aerial and most places pre 1960 are that way.




And to OP, just cut them, my place had 2 aerial phone lines to it and I just lopped em at my house and as far up the pole as I could.
 
NutBucket said:
I would just cut it. There's no danger to you.
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I agree and have done this myself.
Hell, I did it to my old neighbor's house as well.
The line was hanging across my back yard and the neighbor was a rental.
The line was old and went to an old box that wasn't connected to anything.
I ripped it down. 🙂
 
Hmm.... thanks for all the input. I thought of cutting it myself, but then figured they might scream "That's OUR CABLE!!! You owe us!!" or some stupid BS like that.

That being said, I can easily cut and remove the end by/on my house, but then I'm left with a 6ft cable from the pole.... just cut it as short as I can, and leave whatever length I can't reach dangling from the pole?
 
Homerboy said:
Hmm.... thanks for all the input. I thought of cutting it myself, but then figured they might scream "That's OUR CABLE!!! You owe us!!" or some stupid BS like that.

That being said, I can easily cut and remove the end by/on my house, but then I'm left with a 6ft cable from the pole.... just cut it as short as I can, and leave whatever length I can't reach dangling from the pole?
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*crack*

You hear that? Sounds like a tree fell and took that cable down to me and you just threw out what was left on your property.
 
Homerboy said:
That being said, I can easily cut and remove the end by/on my house, but then I'm left with a 6ft cable from the pole.... just cut it as short as I can, and leave whatever length I can't reach dangling from the pole?
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You could do that but I am not seeing a downside to asking them to remove it first.

-KeithP
 
Brainonska511 said:
I'm curious: why not just leave it alone? Is it really a big deal that it's attached to your house?
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Aesthetics is probably the main reason.

However, it would have been simpler for the OP to have actually made the call first rather than posting on OT.
Then if TW refused to take care of the issue, he could justify asking for advice/options.
 
Homerboy said:
Hmm.... thanks for all the input. I thought of cutting it myself, but then figured they might scream "That's OUR CABLE!!! You owe us!!" or some stupid BS like that.

That being said, I can easily cut and remove the end by/on my house, but then I'm left with a 6ft cable from the pole.... just cut it as short as I can, and leave whatever length I can't reach dangling from the pole?
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That's exactly what I did.
A few weeks later, the dangler was gone.
 
cabri said:
Aesthetics is probably the main reason.

However, it would have been simpler for the OP to have actually made the call first rather than posting on OT.
Then if TW refused to take care of the issue, he could justify asking for advice/options.
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I assure you, calling the cable company is never easier than ANYTHING in this world.
 
Brainonska511 said:
I'm curious: why not just leave it alone? Is it really a big deal that it's attached to your house?
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Aesthetics. The cable comes right over our deck and patio furniture and terminates on the side of the house facing where everyone would be seated. In addition, my kids play a lot of wiffle ball/Frisbee/catch/whatever and are always hitting it. Third, it goes right through two large trees and its really getting yanked on by the branches (so I guess if I left it alone, the problem may take care of itself...)
 
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