Electric Cable running across Garden

[Paula]

Hello
Looking for a bit of advice.
I live in a flat and the upstairs neighbours had an unarmoured electric cable running from their house down the property wall and across my pathway. I asked them to look at it as live and unarmoured and they got someone in who has put armoured cabling in directly from their flat to their shed. The new cable now runs through the air across my garden and is a complete eye sore. Would the electrician fitting it have assumed they had saught my consent before installing this new cable and can iI ask them to remove it?

 

[brianmoooore]

IIRC the depth and height data last put in an appearance in the regs. in appendix 11 at the back of the 15th.
I'm of the opinion, that once a reg., then always a reg., unless updated or superceeded, or obviously no longer applicable.

 

[Octopus]

IIRC the depth and height data last put in an appearance in the regs. in appendix 11 at the back of the 15th.

Most of us don't have the 15th - do you?

If you do could you please share what it says

 

[Taylortwocities]

unless updated or superceeded, or obviously no longer applicable.

As above, there are regs for certain locations. Otherwise the applicable reg would be 522.8.10. Which is basically a risk assessment of the location of the cable.
"buried at a depth (sic) to avoid being damaged by any reasonably forseable disturbance of the ground."

So shred that appendix of your 15th. it no longer applies.

 

[Squid]

Most of us don't have the 15th - do you?

If you do could you please share what it says

Was that the red one?

 

[brianmoooore]

Have copies of the 14th (what a nice little tome that was - A5 in size, about 15mm thick, and actually readable!), the 15th (red), 16th and 17th. Along with Tony Cable, I probably won't bother with the 18th, for the same reasons as him.
The 15th gives the buried cable depth as 600mm, or as deep as necessary, in ground that is likely to be disturbed, IIRC. Risk assessment was required, even if the term hadn't been heard of then.
I'll make an attempt to scan the cable height table and upload it sometime, although that will be pushing my computing skills to their limit.

 

[Squid]

So an old school sparks eh Brianmoooor?

 

[brianmoooore]

Old school electrics and old school cars, although new school electrics in some ways! Every domestic installation I've done since the '80s has complied with the 17th AFAIK, apart from the occasional split board having a 100mA RCD on one side instead of two 30mA.

 

[Squid]

I was more an industrial sparks and also drive a E30..........