Help...

[pughd]

I am having a patio laid this weekend and forgotten about the electrics. So need to get things sorted in a hurry.

I want install some lighting on the patio and need to run the cables under the slabs.

I have no intention on connecting the lot up and understand the need for Part P regs etc.

All I want to do lay the cable, ready for an electrician to connect the lot up. As I don't want the slabs taken up again. I am intending to use 6 lights

I understand that you need to use SWA cable, if this is to be laid beneath stone slabs do you need to bury 450mm down etc?

For each light do you need to use an 3 way underground cable joint? such as the Pratley, then take SWA to the light fitting. This will need to be burried beneath the slabs and would involve connecting up the cable which is what I want to avoid. So is there another way of doing this?

Thanks for your help

Dave

 

[viewer]

Hi pug,
Given the short time and the problems of getting someone to certify the work (how do they know what you've done to the buried cable?) perhaps it would be easier to bury a drain pipe from the position of the lights to the (?) house wall. Put a strong rope through it when laying. You can build the patio, then do the wiring at your leisure.