On 06/04/15 09:45, victor wrote:


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.


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