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Steel wired armoured cable in the garden
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<blockquote data-quote="Lurch" data-source="post: 448210" data-attributes="member: 6967"><p>No.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No.</p><p></p><p>You can use some speaker wire buried with no conduit if you want, legally. I think you may be getting "to the current regulations" and "legally" mixed up.</p><p></p><p>SWA is direct burial and doesn't need any additional mechanical protection. Depth is as deep as it needs to be. If it is under slabs or a path then it doesn't need to be ridiculously deep, under a flower bed and it would be wise to bury it fairly deep. General gist is between 450mm &amp; 1m depending on where it is exactly and how likely it is to be caught/damaged.</p><p></p><p>As for the "I will do everything then get the electrician to come round" thing, you should get them to pop their head in now before it is all buried and they say they can't use it for whatever reason, or they might want it doing a particular way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lurch, post: 448210, member: 6967"] No. No. You can use some speaker wire buried with no conduit if you want, legally. I think you may be getting "to the current regulations" and "legally" mixed up. SWA is direct burial and doesn't need any additional mechanical protection. Depth is as deep as it needs to be. If it is under slabs or a path then it doesn't need to be ridiculously deep, under a flower bed and it would be wise to bury it fairly deep. General gist is between 450mm & 1m depending on where it is exactly and how likely it is to be caught/damaged. As for the "I will do everything then get the electrician to come round" thing, you should get them to pop their head in now before it is all buried and they say they can't use it for whatever reason, or they might want it doing a particular way. [/QUOTE]
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