Handholes are made out of polymer concrete. You have to have extremely dry sand. Lime, very light weight small aggregate. You mix it all with polyester resin, like the stuff you make a boat out of.
Not cheap nor easy. I made custom handhole lids for a time with our logo on them. From: Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 10:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] private community fiber network adding to list: 7: 2-4 in duct, good price vendors, preference is mutilple innerduct 8. appropriate general purpose fiber for this type of project vendor 9. good price vendor for handholes 9a. would it just be cheaper to form a bunch of handholes and get concrete at 80 bucks a yard On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: A few questions, this being a family estate property that was subdivided into different lots. There are 8 current homes, haven't looked at a platt map yet to see how the lots are legally divided, so there is that. This is about interconnecting and somewhere in the mix bringing in interwebs. To run past all the current lots is roughly 8050 feet. There would be 4 "fingers" the longest being 3300 feet, passing 3 houses with the longest distance between those 3 being 1400 feet, 300 feet of this would be underwater. This is not a ROW, issue, they don't want it in ROW, I assume they need some sort of legal easement on record for the duct. I know zero about this. Here are some questions: 1. the underwater part. is that normally duct or just underwater fiber. 1a. this pond is stocked by DNR, does that require some crummy permit to drop fiber into even though its privately owned, I don't know what the trade off is for DNR stocking. 2. When passing a lot, do you normally put a handhole in each lot? 3. if a utility ROW is crossed, does that need a permit? 4. Whats the specific terminology, I think its easement, that makes the duct accessible, like ROW, legally even if the property changes hands 5. How does one get this buried cable/duct into a location service database 5.a when a locate is called in who pays? (USIC is the locating agency around here) 6.how much longer will this list of questions get before it gets too hard In this instance, it will all be cut trench, that's free, for them. This is all unincorporated land in a county. however there has been a history of forced incorporation attempts. should that happen, what happens with this duct? assuming there is some chatter on this, anticipate more detailed questions on tech specs
