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SWA between fences

vantech
Hi everyone, 


I’m an electrician and have been asked to provide power to an outbuilding for local power and garden lighting. 


The client has shrubs, trees and bushes therefore direct burial isn’t an option and fixing to the concrete fence posts isn’t possible. There is however a gap between the fence (separating the clients fence and their neighbours). The client has asked if I can run the cable directly on the ground, between the fence line? 


The SWA will be physically protected by the fact there are fences either side, and cannot be damaged here. Are there any regs that prevent this sort of installation method? The length is approx. 15 metres. Obviously there would be appropriate protection via means of an RCD at the source and warning tapes on the cable itself. 


What are everyone’s thoughts? I don’t feel overly comfortable running directly onto the ground, but maybe in a thick walled pipe (purple in colour, perhaps) would be sufficient? Maybe even some pegs to hold the pipe in place? 


Thanks,


Russell. 


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    I share the OP's misgivings. The Electrician's Guide to the Building Regulations gives advice at 5.7 . Leaving it loafing on the surface my well be safer than burying it in a shallow grave - at least it may be seen. It may or may not be vulnerable to attack by squirrels.


    The dual fence situation does seem odd. I would expect that one fence is on the boundary and the other one has been erected by the landowner inside of that, but which is which? Even if the current occupiers are content with the situation, one or other fence may be removed by a future one.


    From a personal perspective, next door's electric gates are fed by a cable which has just been tucked under the concrete gravel boards of the fence. Foxes have burrowed under the fence, but not in that particular section, so it has withstood the test of time.


    Looked at from a slightly different perspective, would anybody code it in an EICR?
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    I share the OP's misgivings. The Electrician's Guide to the Building Regulations gives advice at 5.7 . Leaving it loafing on the surface my well be safer than burying it in a shallow grave - at least it may be seen. It may or may not be vulnerable to attack by squirrels.


    The dual fence situation does seem odd. I would expect that one fence is on the boundary and the other one has been erected by the landowner inside of that, but which is which? Even if the current occupiers are content with the situation, one or other fence may be removed by a future one.


    From a personal perspective, next door's electric gates are fed by a cable which has just been tucked under the concrete gravel boards of the fence. Foxes have burrowed under the fence, but not in that particular section, so it has withstood the test of time.


    Looked at from a slightly different perspective, would anybody code it in an EICR?
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