Silversam - I completely agree. The OSP installation is a completely different animal. I have a whole new respect for the OSP pros (which I am not). The sparkies, being experts on everything, have decided to try and just 'jump in there' and do it.
We have been waiting on the fiber and had an agreement with the other contractor to hold off on installing the three innerducts in the 4" PVC 500' straight run.
Just happen to be by there today and what do I see?!! The contractor told his workers to 'shove it in there' without calling me. No voice cable, no rope, no Aquaseal cable for paging, etc.
I should have taken a picture. They could only get it to go in there about 75' because the innerduct was tangling up like crazy. When I asked what they thought they were doing they said they've never installed a mess like this before.
They were attempting to pull all that with a little nylon pull string and I have two 1800lb Nepco tapes + a 600' roll of 3/4" rope sitting just feet away.
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They 'greased up' the head of the innerduct - and, of course - I had an ample supply of Polywater right around the corner. Nice mess.
I have all the right goodies on standby for the innerduct pull - chains with innerduct pullers, swivels, etc. They just duct taped the three innerducts together and started yanking from the other end. It looked like DOC OCK from Spiderman.
Here I did all this research and spent about $750 on extra innerduct 'hardware' and had a plan, and get ignored.
Needless to say, they 'need me' now. Maybe not me, but anyone who has worked with or researched innerduct conduit and OSP pulls before; they haven't even seen the stuff before today.
The other mistakes -
They didn't provide me a pull box/point half way through the long 500' run. They don't want any kind of box in their parking lot
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. So, as a compromise, they are going to cut a top section out of the PVC pipe at the 250' point and when I am done, glue it back on -
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nice - it is a one-time deal.
They did pull three 4" PVC conduits on the 500' run and two 4" PVCs the rest of the way. Wrong. I requested METAL for the OSP to get to the phone room 175' run once it is into the building. Oh well. That is the way it is - I will live with it. As a fire carry hazard it really is not - the run goes down and around a giant mostly-open service shop. Of course, it wouldn't probably make an inspector jump for joy, but that isn't my problem. I said what I wanted to see. They ignored.
The fiber is coming soon so I told them to wait on the innerduct and we'll all 'work together' to get it done.
The good part is the guys who installed the PVC itself did clean work with large 48" radius sweeps and junction to pull from (except the center of the main 500' run). I will try to take pics. Getting out my camera when sparkie was trying to do the install today would have been a little obvious and maybe a little rude.