Swa on a fence

[Tim]

Hi guys,

Ive got to run an armored cable to a garage from a ground floor flat, the existing feed is pyro but its been vandalised and no good.

The pyro is currently clipped to a fence owened by the people next door. This is the only route down to the garage, short of digging up the concrete path for 30meters, which the land owner was not happy about.

The customer is happy for the new swa to be run in the same way, i cant see a problem aslong as next door are made aware and are happy for the cable to be run on their fence.

Can anyone else spot anything i may have overlooked?

Cheers,
Tim

 

[rattlehead85]

It is certainly not advisable or good practice to clip or string an SWA cable along a non permanent structure such as a fence (i take it the fence is of wooden construction). The proper way is to bury the cable to 0.6m and back fill with aggregate and a layer if warning tape. At the end of the day if the client wants a proper job they must expect the inconvenience of having it done the right way. There is then the issue of the next door neighbour agreeing to this being hooked up to their fence in the first place.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Here you go ...... all the info you'll ever need right here: http://www.electriciansforums.net/google.php?cx=partner-pub-4734091600944995%3A1237305536&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Swa+on+a+fence&sa.x=10&sa.y=15&siteurl=www.electriciansforums.net%2Felectrical-forum-general-electrical-forum%2F77367-swa-fence.html&ref=www.electriciansforums.net%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearchid%3D2688418&ss=

 

[GLENNSPARK]

this has all been done before....
get permission from them next door....
crack on....

 

[Fast&Rough]

Removable structure = no fixed wiring it's in the bgb

 

[telectrix]

or string it on poles. :ciappa:

 

[D Skelton]

A stud wall or partition is just as removable as a wooden fence, so is a shed. All this 'can't clip cable along a fence' lot are talking rubbish, that is unless it really is some temporary harris fencing. Although I would personally do everything I could to persuade them to have it buried, if it wasn't an option, I'd crack on, with neighbours permission.

 

[shocking_eg]

screw the fence panels down - then its a fixed structure !

jeeze just get on with the job !

 

[Fast&Rough]

Or stop asking questions on the internet because I couldn't care what you do, you should look at a job and decide there and then what your going to do. And I still wouldn't clip a cable to the fence , It looks **** and amateur

 

[Tim]

Here you go ...... all the info you'll ever need right here: http://www.electriciansforums.net/google.php?cx=partner-pub-4734091600944995%3A1237305536&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Swa+on+a+fence&sa.x=10&sa.y=15&siteurl=www.electriciansforums.net%2Felectrical-forum-general-electrical-forum%2F77367-swa-fence.html&ref=www.electriciansforums.net%2Fsearch.php%3Fsearchid%3D2688418&ss=

Cheers, i tried a search but on tapatalk its not very easy to go through the results.

The fence is not a flimesy one that are in most gardens, its concrete pillars with stiff wooden fencing between. The existing pyro has been there for 20years plus. And ill get permission from next door first.

The i would bury it but the land owner doesnt want me digging up the communial concrete path, so it clipped to the fence or a bloody long catinery wire.

Cheers,
Tim

 

[Tim]

Or stop asking questions on the internet because I couldn't care what you do, you should look at a job and decide there and then what your going to do. And I still wouldn't clip a cable to the fence , It looks **** and amateur

Had a bad day? I appritiate its not the best way but there arnt any other doable options. I just wanted to check i hadnt overlooked anything obvious, thats what these forums are fore isnt it?

 

[Outspoken]

What do they want the power for Tim?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

make sure the fence is stable, secure and properly fixed...
gain permission from the relevent parties...
clip the cable neat and make sure its visible....
just bat on with it kid...

 

[D Skelton]

Don't take the knock mate, you will inevitably come across loads of people in the trade who are so blinkered and cannot for love nor money think outside the box of indoctrination they have become so used to following thanks to the smorgasboard of crap publications, crap rumours and crap teaching that is out there.

At the end of the day, common sense will always prevail and just coz a book says to put in a 25mm cable in to feed a lighting circuit or a lecturer says you don't need to worry about any sort of bonding coz you've got RCD protection doesn't neccessarily make it statute. Nor does the OPINIONS of electricians you don't know and have never met dealing out info on forums!

Use your head and if in doubt, always go with the majority verdict lol.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Don't take the knock mate, you will inevitably come across loads of people in the trade who are so blinkered and cannot for love nor money think outside the box of indoctrination they have become so used to following thanks to the smorgasboard of crap publications, crap rumours and crap teaching that is out there.

At the end of the day, common sense will always prevail and just coz a book says to put in a 25mm cable in to feed a lighting circuit or a lecturer says you don't need to worry about any sort of bonding coz you've got RCD protection doesn't neccessarily make it statute. Nor does the OPINIONS of electricians you don't know and have never met dealing out info on forums!

Use your head and if in doubt, always go with the majority verdict lol.

well for a start this wouldn`t necessarilly be correct either as if disconnection times are only being met by means of RCD then surely you would still be installing supplementary bonding...