Ron Lowe wrote:
On 18/05/2011 07:37, Count de Monet wrote:
WiFi to my workshop from my router is patchy at best so I want to run
some cat 5/6 cable for a permanent connection.

The cable will be surface clipped for 90% of the run except for one
metre which must be underground (under a gate)

A gap exists between decorative slabs under the gate just a bit wider
than the diameter of the cable. If I remove the mortar between the slabs
I can lay the cable and then re-fill the gap with cement.

I don't want to widen the gap enough to be able to fit conduit or
similar to contain the cable as this will spoil the look of the area so
will the cable be OK just buried like this over this short distance or
is their anything I can do to protect it when underground? I was
thinking of self amalgamating tape.

Opinions and suggestions please?

Use blue MDPE water pipe as a conduit.

Not helpful.

In fact I would lay it not in mortar, but on something like casting
resin - epoxy perhaps.

It wont last forever. Cat 5 doesn't like UV. And so water will get in
eventually and start corrosion.

But 5 years may be feasible.

So I would bodge it an be damned.