Outdoor armoured cable cover required?

[carling_mascot]

I will be having the council building inspector over soon to hopefully sign off my self build but am unsure about an armoured cable which exits my house approx 2 foot up from current ground level and then goes straight down the rendered exterior wall into some ducting underground to my garage at the bottom of the garden.

The ground in this area does need to come up about a foot so some of the cable will be visible when finished therefore I think he'd want it covered/protected against impact? I'm struggling to find a suitable product for this, most ask the cable to be fed through but I cannot do this as its fixed either end. The cable is about an inch in diameter at most.

Any pointers appreciated, thanks.

 

[^woody^]

Are the council signing off the electrics or was the installation done under a self certify scheme?

Armoured cable is already protected from impact. Otherwise, slit some plastic tube lengthways and put this over the cable.

 

[carling_mascot]

The electrician has done his bit and provided certificates which I assume I need to show the building control guy? He's been very textbook so far so I'm trying to eliminate any possible failures before he visits. I think I'll cover the cable with something anyway for aesthetics if nothing else, thanks for your suggestion I'll try it.

 

[^woody^]

If the electrics are under a competent person scheme, the council inspector won't be interested in them.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

What Woody said. If the cable is somewhere where there is the possibility of something hard (like a car or a vandal with a rock) hitting it then you can get galvanised capping (BT use it on their big cables in similar circs). Screwfix sell a smaller version (they call it channelling though)- you could make it work but you'd need to make the channel deeper than supplied (length of conduit, hammer, bench should do it). If it's in your back garden then don't worry, the Armour bit will protect it against anything likely to hit it.