How to fix exterior buried coax cable?

CraigT · 2008-08-30T23:04:29+00:00

First off, let me say that whoever installed this cable was an idiot. Cable was buried maybe 2" down and snaked out away from the house 6 feet then back then back 4 feet into a flower bed and toward my front porch then back out again toward the array of utility boxes in the front yard.You guessed it. When I was dividing some Daylilies today I cut it (not that I knew until after my shower, when I wanted to watch some football).All my experience is with interior cable.I was going to leave the twist on connectors I've already installed on the cable right where they are, and then put in a regular nickel plated coupler, and then shrink wrap it. Is this good enough?

Aug 30, 2008 21 Replies

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Jerry - OHIO 17 years ago

Probably when the house was built (if in a sub divison ) the cable was run to the house in a trench with the power line (if under ground ) and run up the side of the house , when the siders sided the house they dropped the cable and it got buried ,so when the cable guy came out for the hook up he didn't take the time to dig for the end. So they drop a new line and charge the builder $100.00 and let the land scappers cover it .It happens quit often. Jr.

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terry 17 years ago

Here all our services, except water and sewer of course are overhead and it is windy and sometimes icy climate. But the utility companies do an excellent job even during storm conditions. Restoration of services is extremely fast under almost all circumstances. From the viewpoint of speed of adding additional houses and speed of restoration aerial plant may be a better way? Also although the ground here is rocky the occasional pole replacement after say an extreme ice storm is pretty quick

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