I am going to pave part of my front garden. There are a BT cable and a Virgin Cable in the area where I wish to pave - both about 9 inches down.
I am wondering if there is such a thing as "snap-on" conduit that I can put around the cables before I do the paving. If the cables ever needed replacing they could then be pulled through the conduit they will then be in.
ie rather than putting conduit down and pulling the cables through - put it around the cables without disconnecting them.
This?
That's it !!
Well done that man: I had searched in vain.
I'd suggest that you could use that rectangular stuff with clip on lids, and perhaps use a glue to secure the lids and see if that is good enough, after all if the wires themselves have been ok up to now... Brian
Trunking?
On 06 Apr 2015, "ARW" grunted:
Yes; would be a darned sight cheaper than the 110mm diameter split trunking mentioned earlier. It's not rated for external or underground use of course; but that's not relevant as the cables concerned (presumably!) already are.
Use a bit of plastic mini trunking.
Could you drop a length or two of conventional trunking more or less alongside the existing cables (with draw rope installed, of course)? Then the old cables would simply be abandoned rather than replaced, if ever necessary. BT were quite happy to give me 60 metres of their trunking to bury in order to ease later replacement - admittedly in this case it was to replace an overhead cable.
Kevin
any old plastic tubing or hosepipe and cut a slit along the length of it [g]
And not fit for purpose.
On 07 Apr 2015, "ARW" grunted:
Define 'purpose' though. I certainly wouldn't advocate the OP stuffing standard T+E down it, butfor what he wants I think it would be just fine.
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