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I knew this was going to happen

Paratus

Paratus

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Neighbor put in a pool so my wife and I decided to put in a flower bed along that fence (wrought iron type and see through per HOA) to block the view and sound.

I was digging up the sod and guess what I found? In three places.

If you said my Comcast cable have a :cookie:


I thought I knew where it was. Apparently not.

Anyway after my wife spent 17 minutes on the phone with Comcast convincing them that problem was actually the missing chunk of cable and not the cable modem they are sending someone out tomorrow.

In the mean time I'm going try and patch it for tonight.

Sigh. I need a :beercheers:
 
When they built our subdivision they must have had an extra 20 feet of cable to use up when they ran the cable from the front lawn box for the cable 30 feet into the house. That cable (which I found on multiple digs) snaked back and forth 10 feet at least 2 times. And they laid the cable on top of the top soil and then sodded over it, so it was like an inch and a half down. I cut it once, the wife cut it once and I came close a half a dozen times. You can fix it to last a while by using compression terminal ends and then wrap the whole mend with water resistant electrical tape (more like a strip of putty on a roll of paper that you peel off as you unroll it). However, water always wins. My repairs lasted 10 years, but the cable had to be replaced this year.
 
I hope you're planting this kind of flower in that flower bed.

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Carson Dyle said:
I hope you're planting this kind of flower in that flower bed.

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Yes but mine are very small right now . My neighbors pool guys landscaped his side with hedges but they used ones that will remain tiny.


At any rate I only had crimp fittings on hand but I've got it working now.
 
John Connor said:
Yeah, they only bury the drop a few inches.
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Squisher said:
When they built our subdivision they must have had an extra 20 feet of cable to use up when they ran the cable from the front lawn box for the cable 30 feet into the house. That cable (which I found on multiple digs) snaked back and forth 10 feet at least 2 times. And they laid the cable on top of the top soil and then sodded over it, so it was like an inch and a half down. I cut it once, the wife cut it once and I came close a half a dozen times. You can fix it to last a while by using compression terminal ends and then wrap the whole mend with water resistant electrical tape (more like a strip of putty on a roll of paper that you peel off as you unroll it). However, water always wins. My repairs lasted 10 years, but the cable had to be replaced this year.
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I knew they only buried it right below the surface and I knew it was in the flower bed. My problem was I didn't realize how far along the fence it ran before taking a 90 and going to the box. Instead of running in an "L" shape they ran it halfway along one fence and then fully along the other two fences which means it goes the entire length of my new bed.
 
You should have taken this opportunity to remove a bunch of the extra wire so you could get even moar broadbands.
 
Now to see if they charge you for the repair cost. 😀

Also does said neighbor have a hot wife to watch swim in said pool?
 
You got lucky. I was having work done in the front yard and they cut the fiber optic cable. That was on Saturday and they could not make it out until Thursday.

My family still talks about that dark period in our like as if we were the Flintstones.
 
Stopsignhank said:
You got lucky. I was having work done in the front yard and they cut the fiber optic cable. That was on Saturday and they could not make it out until Thursday.

My family still talks about that dark period in our like as if we were the Flintstones.
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I know. I don't know what my kids would have done tomorrow morning if there was no Netflix and only what was on the antenna. :fearscream:
 
When Charter came over my house to replace the old cable, the cable guy had to pull the cable through my neighbor's front yard. The old lady wasn't home and her grandsons were and they agreed that the cable guy can dig a few feet of small trench on the front yard.

Of course she was not happy. 😕

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I don't think 811 can help.
 
We have very old electricity system in our area.

IIRC, we will have at least one power outage each year. Several times when it happened, Edison engineers constantly had to drive around trying to find where the problems occured, since they don't have updated power line maps!
 
mxnerd said:
When Charter came over my house to replace the old cable, the cable guy had to pull the cable through my neighbor's front yard. The old lady wasn't home and her grandsons were and they agreed that the cable guy can dig a few feet of small trench on the front yard.

Of course she was not happy. 😕

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I don't think 811 can help.
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The only problem is most cities will allow people like that to come on your land because of easements.

Now how much damage he did is one thing but there is not much you can do about it really.
 
You're lucky. When the city I live in/Comcast decided to change their cables from overhead in a post to underground late 2011 as part of the 2010 lane expansion (1 to 2 lanes each side), that's when my signal strength problems started.
Wasn't getting the clear channels internet I've had for the last +10 years with Comcast and the internet was significantly slower. They couldn't seem to get to fix the underground cable correctly, despite my complaints/many calls.
Part of the problem was certain portions were not even covered with a pipe. Not sure if the used RG11 (preferred)/RG6.

Rough sketch of cable run, approx 175' from that green cable distribution box to my outside utility cable enclosure, then 50' to my cable box.
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https://www.google.com/maps/@41.630...4!1sAy_E7KcB83OUamQ3HIMiXg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (zoom in an you'll see the exposed cable run-left side of the asphalt as it goes up).
 
Excavators make great cable locators. In some cases it's faster than waiting for the locate people to show up and saves you from messing around with trying to get dousing rods to work.
 
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