Hi all.
I'm soon going to be having my driveway re-done and electric gates installed. To keep costs down, I'm planning to do as much of the digging-out & sub base myself as I can.
The cable for the gates will need to be run underground (about 10-12 metres in total), and I want to keep my options open for the possibility of installing lights on the gateposts etc.
Having done some searching on here, I can see that I need to use SWA.
My questions are these:
- Should I run the SWA inside some kind of ducting to make future alterations / additions / maintenance easy?
- If I do use ducting, what sort / size is 'standard' for this kind of thing?
- How deep should I bury it? (there is potential for heavy machinery in the future, as a house extension still needs to be built).
- Should I just sack the idea of ducting and use a cable with more cores than I think I need so I have some built-in future expandability?
- If I'm not using ducting, does the burying depth change?
- Is there anything else I should be considering / doing when running the cable?
Any help & opinions would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
Rich.
I'm soon going to be having my driveway re-done and electric gates installed. To keep costs down, I'm planning to do as much of the digging-out & sub base myself as I can.
The cable for the gates will need to be run underground (about 10-12 metres in total), and I want to keep my options open for the possibility of installing lights on the gateposts etc.
Having done some searching on here, I can see that I need to use SWA.
My questions are these:
- Should I run the SWA inside some kind of ducting to make future alterations / additions / maintenance easy?
- If I do use ducting, what sort / size is 'standard' for this kind of thing?
- How deep should I bury it? (there is potential for heavy machinery in the future, as a house extension still needs to be built).
- Should I just sack the idea of ducting and use a cable with more cores than I think I need so I have some built-in future expandability?
- If I'm not using ducting, does the burying depth change?
- Is there anything else I should be considering / doing when running the cable?
Any help & opinions would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
Rich.