surface laying SWA

[ackbarthestar]

There's more rubbish in this thread than my local landfill.

You've got three options....clip it, hang it or bury it. Its not a nuclear warhead we're discussing.

More like a dirty bomb....... I can smell the advance of the 5th columnists.

Rule of thumb for burying SWAs in the ground appropriate for domestic installations and as recommended by the CITB and in most training manuals is 2 spade depths, just in case you have a propensity for double digging which equates in new money to 600mm.

 

[Rockingit]

15" will satisfy the utility companies for a gas trench across private land.
But when I've had this problem before, I've just had the client make a little dwarf fence (8' rails on 1' posts) along the route out of 2 x 3 and then cleat the cable to the back of it.

 

[Kate]

I've always got my builders to do trenches, I specify 600mm, then layer of sand, then cable, then sand and fill it. Was a special type of sand but forgotten now.

 

[Geordie Spark]

15" will satisfy the utility companies for a gas trench across private land.
But when I've had this problem before, I've just had the client make a little dwarf fence (8' rails on 1' posts) along the route out of 2 x 3 and then cleat the cable to the back of it.

That's exactly what I have in mind for mine.

 

[varilite]

Bury bury and bury again

 

[Geordie Spark]

I've always got my builders to do trenches, I specify 600mm, then layer of sand, then cable, then sand and fill it. Was a special type of sand but forgotten now.

Sharp sand????

 

[Deleted member 72666]

Bury bury and bury again

Is that not near Bolton?

 

[McN41R]

@ritchard Burns, which part of electricians guide to building regs would satisfy this problem? As far as I know this guide would refer to bs7671.

 

[Kate]

Sharp sand????

it began with an s! sifting??

 

[Geordie Spark]

it began with an s! sifting??

OK ............. maybe Silver Sand then? It's very fine.

If you think of Sharp sand as granulated sugar, then Silver Sand is castor sugar.

 

[Kate]

OK ............. maybe Silver Sand then? It's very fine.

If you think of Sharp sand as granulated sugar, then Silver Sand is castor sugar.

Builder does it for me lol!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Builder does it for me lol!

Builder's wife does it for me ........... but let's not go there !!

 

[ackbarthestar]

Builder does it for me lol!

yea, but what about the sand ?

....whoops, I'm off ....

 

[Geordie Spark]

yea, but what about the sand ?

....whoops, I'm off ....

Well that's one of the hazards of playing rudies in the sand dunes innit.

 

[ackbarthestar]

Cable laid in silver sand then sharps sand and then back filled with gravel and top soil till 150mm below the surface, then either electrical bricks, not on your life , more like electrical warning black and yellow tape and filled with top soil.