Any ideas roughly what it would cost (in Cambridgeshire, heavy clay) to dig about 15m of trench to a depth of 1m, bury insulated water pipes and some SWA, backfill and put paving slabs on top?
Beyond 'hire a mini digger and DIY', where I'd probably spend most of the time failing to drive the digger...
Thanks Theo
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Hire a "Ditch Witch" or similar trenching machine. Most plant hire places will have one.
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But does it have to be as deep as 1 metre? Most trenches are 18" to 24", and if you laying paving slaps over it the cable/pipes are going to be protected.
When I was working we would normally use cable ploughs such as
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but we were doing much longer runs than 15m. The cost of laying a ploughed fibre optic cable (including cable and warning tape) was about 10 quid per metre. The plus point about the plough is that you don't have to remove spoil or backfill.
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