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hugo7
Bright ideas and simple solutions wanted.

tl;dr is there an easy way to drill a 90cm tunnel under paving
- I want to be able to keep my motorbike battery tender plugged into my bike while maintaining a clean footpath and no trip hazards, and not worrying about my charger getting nicked.
- Finance will not approve an external socket.
- we have a spare socket (that I currently use) in an outhouse down the alley.
- I have spare connectors to make my own super long extension cable.
- All paving is recent with a cemented in boarder and some pavers set and others cemented - I cannot remember which, but feel the footpath may all be cemented as a high traffic area.
I can work out how to run the cable neatly around the outside. The problem is how to get a cable across the footpath? I'm wondering if there is some sort of extra long sds drill bit I could rent/buy to span the 90cm path, then dig a hole in the bed either side and drill underneath, possibly running a bit of metal or plastic conduit to maintain the structure of the hole.

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JonoMarshall in reply to @hugo7

You can get SDS bits that are well over 1m long, so no problems there.

You'd need to dig up lots of garden to drill horizontally... maybe drill at an angle instead?

You'd want the cable/housing to be weather-proof and ideally armoured.

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