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Overhead Power cable from my house to my barn

Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Hi All

Sorry to jump straight in with a question -

I bought a house in Wales with a stone barn 23m away from the house. The barn takes power from the house from the consumer unit via a overhead cable (currently not fit for purpose) which runs a few lights and a couple of sockets in the barn. All of the land involved is owned solely by me.

I've re-roofed the barn so had an electrician safely remove the power beforehand but I need to run power back to the barn now.

My electrician is telling me that I must bury an armored cable 3 feet under ground from the house to the barn otherwise it's "illegal". It is only 23m away but it's downhill from the house and there is a big change in level of the ground. To achieve 3 feel would mean taking a digger to my driveway and front garden which is going to be expensive and time consuming.

Bearing in mind it's only going to be used to run some LED lights and a couple of sockets for my workshop (I'd say 45 amps absolute max - and can't see why it would get up that high to be honest) is he right to say I must bury an armored cable or can I reinstall some kind of overhead cable but in a compliant way?

Many thanks in advance for any advice - happy to add any clarification if needed

thanks - Jon

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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Thanks guys for all the advice - it's been really helpful and since saying to the electrician that I've done some research and can't see any legal requirement for buried cable, he has changed his view and said an overhead would be OK but he'd prefer to have buried it.

I can try and up load a picture - but the main issue for me is the downhill gradient and a large step down from the front of the house down to the drive which would mean burying and setting back the cable a long way - but also there is drainage under the drive (I live 1 mile from the village that holds the UK record for daily rainfall - so you can imagine what it can rain like here!) so I was very concerned about digging down and disturbing all of that -

But again - thank you all for coming back on this - it's been very useful info to have! cheers - JS
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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Thanks guys for all the advice - it's been really helpful and since saying to the electrician that I've done some research and can't see any legal requirement for buried cable, he has changed his view and said an overhead would be OK but he'd prefer to have buried it.

I can try and up load a picture - but the main issue for me is the downhill gradient and a large step down from the front of the house down to the drive which would mean burying and setting back the cable a long way - but also there is drainage under the drive (I live 1 mile from the village that holds the UK record for daily rainfall - so you can imagine what it can rain like here!) so I was very concerned about digging down and disturbing all of that -

But again - thank you all for coming back on this - it's been very useful info to have! cheers - JS
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