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Electricians - burying cable. I'm wiring up a cabin, powered from a small DB in a neighbouring shed (which was wired in with the intention of including the cabin and its supply in the future). I'm going to supply the cabin's DB with SWA running out of the shed and into the cabin.
The shed and the cabin are less than 2ft apart. They both sit on a formed concrete slab. My question is about how I should arrange the cable run. The owner (father in law), wants to chase a groove into the concrete and run the cable in the chase but the regs state that cables need to buried at sufficient depth (usually taken as 600mm), so I've told him that's a no go.
He isn't keen to have the cable in the air. Would it be reasonable to put the cable into galvanised conduit and put that in the chase instead? I guess if I chase the concrete but don't fill it back in, it's not technically buried, although I'd still want the extra mechanical protection of the conduit.
It's a bit annoying as I can't seem to get through to him that him "having a think about it" isn't sufficient grounds for deviating from the regulations - but that's a separate matter for the rant thread...