Hi,
The electricity supply to our bungalow, which was built in 1981, is via a 'loop' connection from the fusehead in the property next door, to our fusehead.
Part of this loop, after leaving next door's property, runs diagonally across our front lawn, at depth of only 250mm (10"), goes under the pavement in front of the house at the same depth where it exits our property, from where, according to the electricity board's tracing equipment, it runs along underneath the pavement and then under our drive to our fusehead.
Can anyone tell me please, what was the regulation minimum depth at which this cable (Black, LV, 12mm O/dia), should have been buried, at that time? 10" is only one spade depth and, as the lawn is an area containing flower beds, so is quite likely to be dug over, I would have thought that 2 spade depths (0.6m/20") ought to have been the minmum.
The reason I ask is that we had a contractor in to grind away a smallish (15" dia) tree stump. The cable referred to, unbeknown to us, ran very close to this stump and got shredded, along with the stump. Result, no electricity supply for 5 hours and a very unhappy contractor He was very lucky that he wasn't using metal shafted hand tools to the job!
If anyone can quote me chapter and verse on whose regulations, specifically which regulation numbers, were in force at that time I would be very grateful.
I have tried to add pictures to my album but, whilst the system says "UPLOADING...", it patently obviously is not, uploading, that is. All images are a lot smaller than 1MB, so I can't see what the problem is there. Perhaps somebody shredded their 'loop' connection.
Tony Norton
The electricity supply to our bungalow, which was built in 1981, is via a 'loop' connection from the fusehead in the property next door, to our fusehead.
Part of this loop, after leaving next door's property, runs diagonally across our front lawn, at depth of only 250mm (10"), goes under the pavement in front of the house at the same depth where it exits our property, from where, according to the electricity board's tracing equipment, it runs along underneath the pavement and then under our drive to our fusehead.
Can anyone tell me please, what was the regulation minimum depth at which this cable (Black, LV, 12mm O/dia), should have been buried, at that time? 10" is only one spade depth and, as the lawn is an area containing flower beds, so is quite likely to be dug over, I would have thought that 2 spade depths (0.6m/20") ought to have been the minmum.
The reason I ask is that we had a contractor in to grind away a smallish (15" dia) tree stump. The cable referred to, unbeknown to us, ran very close to this stump and got shredded, along with the stump. Result, no electricity supply for 5 hours and a very unhappy contractor He was very lucky that he wasn't using metal shafted hand tools to the job!
If anyone can quote me chapter and verse on whose regulations, specifically which regulation numbers, were in force at that time I would be very grateful.
I have tried to add pictures to my album but, whilst the system says "UPLOADING...", it patently obviously is not, uploading, that is. All images are a lot smaller than 1MB, so I can't see what the problem is there. Perhaps somebody shredded their 'loop' connection.
Tony Norton