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.
