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How deep will ComEd bury their plant? You can follow in "their" trench but, keep at least a foot of dirt between them and your telephone/CATV. This also applies to placing your cables in plastic pipe. Depending on bends and turns you should be able to get by with 3/4" pipe.
But, why bother? Both Telco and CATV will deliver to your house. Let them take on the expense. Just make sure you run your "outside" cables from inside your house to an area that accessable to them - usually near the electric entrance.
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Originally posted by RobertF: Yeah, if the trench is open I'd toss in a 2" conduit to facilitate repair work or the need for additional cables. Ditto
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But, why bother? Both Telco and CATV will deliver to your house. Let them take on the expense. Just make sure you run your "outside" cables from inside your house to an area that accessable to them - usually near the electric entrance. 
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I speak from experience...we had our cable line cut a number of years ago so the cable company came and ran a new one. they do not bury it very deep...the landscaper cut it while edging some beds...
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cable and phone drops around here are usually no more than 6" deep , the old joke is you lay it on the ground and kick a little sand over it .
you need to know the area there in and be care full digging
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How about FIOS, many new homes and developments are using fiber. If conduit is run no problem for future upgrade.
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Originally posted by skip555: cable and phone drops around here are usually no more than 6" deep , the old joke is you lay it on the ground and kick a little sand over it .
you need to know the area there in and be care full digging It's also why cable companies typically don't charge if the line is cut. How far they are SUPPOSED to bury it and how far they actually do are two different factors and really depends on the contract crew sent out to replace it. Combine the high cost of trenchers and plows and the lowering installation rates for the contractor, I'm not surprised in the least that it's basically laid just under the grass. I've heard crews around here are getting around $40 to run a replacement underground drop from the tap back to the house. Please tell me where you get quality out of that... (Sorry for the random OT rant...)
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Cox is replacing broken/cut drops with a "coax in conduit" product. I have no idea how deep it's buried. Apparently it comes on a reel with the coax already installed in it.
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Originally posted by brianl703: Cox is replacing broken/cut drops with a "coax in conduit" product. I have no idea how deep it's buried. Apparently it comes on a reel with the coax already installed in it. Yeah, I'm seeing that more and more from the MSO's. I've also noticed that locally, Time Warner is installing innerduct (Not the coax in conduit deal) on all drop replacements and then yanking in the coax. So now they can have a regular tech do underground drop replacements if the one in the innerduct goes bad. Cheap way to improve customer repair times.
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I was a contractor for Cox in Va. Beach when they were beginning to deploy "cable in conduit". I suspect what was delivered was the cable we installed in the conduit which was called"siamese coax", also referred to as "figure 8 cable". It is 1 RG6 with a 22 ga. 1 pair for voice service.
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