On 08 Feb 2005 15:00:02 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

Owain wrote:
"Andy Lewis" wrote
| I wish to lay an outside electrical cable to my garden shed 30 metres
| from house, what is the best sort of cable? Cheap but safe and can I
| bury the cable?

Steel wire armoured (SWA) cable is suitable for burial. It must be buried
deep enough it will not be disturbed/damaged, which usually means two forks
deep on lawn and deeper on beds with will be double-dug. You can get buried
cable warning tape to bury in the trench just below the surface.

Does it have to be cable warning marking tape?
I used yellow painted dexian (steel angle) 5cm over the conduit.

The idea of the warning tape, is so that somebody who digs, finds the
tape long before the cable. For the reason the tapes is put somewhere
neer the surface. An excavator bucket (small machine) can take out 2
foot deep in one bite .......

Rick