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pffreestyler10 Apr 2019 13:58Hello,
On April 29th, the civil engineering company will start installing gas, water, and electricity lines. For three months now, the telecom provider has failed to send the order to the civil engineering company to install their cables at the same time. Originally, the plan was to lay a 75 DN (nominal diameter) KG conduit alongside the other installations. However, we have now realized that a PE pipe is required, which is somewhat more expensive than a KG pipe. We do not want to spend money on an empty conduit just because the telecom provider has not gotten their act together. After all, 100 € is 100 €.
Question: The telecom connection costs 799.00 €. If we decide to skip the empty conduit, will this result in additional costs later since retrofitting will be more effort without an existing conduit? The driveway will only be paved next year anyway, so having to dig it up again would not be a problem for us.
On April 29th, the civil engineering company will start installing gas, water, and electricity lines. For three months now, the telecom provider has failed to send the order to the civil engineering company to install their cables at the same time. Originally, the plan was to lay a 75 DN (nominal diameter) KG conduit alongside the other installations. However, we have now realized that a PE pipe is required, which is somewhat more expensive than a KG pipe. We do not want to spend money on an empty conduit just because the telecom provider has not gotten their act together. After all, 100 € is 100 €.
Question: The telecom connection costs 799.00 €. If we decide to skip the empty conduit, will this result in additional costs later since retrofitting will be more effort without an existing conduit? The driveway will only be paved next year anyway, so having to dig it up again would not be a problem for us.
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pffreestyler10 Apr 2019 15:04Too bad, I had hoped that the €799 would be a flat fee for everything.
€100 is €100, I’m not giving anything away for free, especially not to such a large company. Of course, in the context of building a house, it’s a trivial amount and I can afford it, but it’s more about the principle and the effort involved. They have known the contractor for the civil engineering work for 3 months now, and they have had the documents for over 6 months. Now I have to take time off, buy everything, and bother the civil engineering company.
€100 is €100, I’m not giving anything away for free, especially not to such a large company. Of course, in the context of building a house, it’s a trivial amount and I can afford it, but it’s more about the principle and the effort involved. They have known the contractor for the civil engineering work for 3 months now, and they have had the documents for over 6 months. Now I have to take time off, buy everything, and bother the civil engineering company.
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Mottenhausen10 Apr 2019 15:06I basically understand the 800€ charge to Telekom without the empty conduit.
Wasn’t there something like ... "house entry to be done by the builder"? At the very end of the last page in the letter from Telekom, there was even a guide specifying the required pipe diameter, the bends, the maximum length, etc.
Our shell builder has taken care of everything. By the way: it’s best to install an additional empty conduit for whatever might be needed in the street later on. (For example, an extra 10Gbit fiber optic network all the way to the houses.) Better safe than sorry, since it usually doesn’t cost much.
Wasn’t there something like ... "house entry to be done by the builder"? At the very end of the last page in the letter from Telekom, there was even a guide specifying the required pipe diameter, the bends, the maximum length, etc.
Our shell builder has taken care of everything. By the way: it’s best to install an additional empty conduit for whatever might be needed in the street later on. (For example, an extra 10Gbit fiber optic network all the way to the houses.) Better safe than sorry, since it usually doesn’t cost much.
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