Underground or Overground (nothing to do with wombles!)

mapj1:

I suggest in a domestic setting, you will be fine if you bury an offcut of  of scaffolding pipe or similar  pole under your paving slabs and do not worry about it too much, if someone digs up the path, they will ding the  pipe before they chop the cable. And if it is on its own spur or MCB then even if the worst happens, you can isolate it and keep the lights on in the rest of the building. The alternate to go down 2 feet in flexiduct and then go about the same sideways, and then come up again is more trouble than its worth, cannot easily be rethreaded, and will just sit filled with muddy water .

Mike

Sounds like a plan, it will be obvious the cable is there as it will be visible up the wall on eather side.

mapj1:

I suggest in a domestic setting, you will be fine if you bury an offcut of  of scaffolding pipe or similar  pole under your paving slabs and do not worry about it too much, if someone digs up the path, they will ding the  pipe before they chop the cable. And if it is on its own spur or MCB then even if the worst happens, you can isolate it and keep the lights on in the rest of the building. The alternate to go down 2 feet in flexiduct and then go about the same sideways, and then come up again is more trouble than its worth, cannot easily be rethreaded, and will just sit filled with muddy water .

Mike

Sounds like a plan, it will be obvious the cable is there as it will be visible up the wall on eather side.