Hello,
A previous owner has buried some SWA to take power from the house to the garage. Whilst doing some gardening, I found a metal junction box buried in the soil. It looks like it is coated in some sort of "lard"; I presume to keep moisture out and to prevent rusting but it looks on its last legs.
The cable runs to the far corner of the garage; I think if I ran the existing cable to the nearest corner, I would not need a join and I could do away with the box.
I have found the wiki very useful to learn about swa.
I am unsure: should the SWA bend through almost ninety degrees as it enters or leaves a building? That's what the current set-up is like but that seems quite a bend to me. Would it be better to run the swa up to a junction box on the wall, like this:
and from that take some T&E inside?
Thanks, Stephen.