glivo
1st May 2019, 10:05 AM
No playing with welders today. I had a positrack excavator / digger in yesterday to move 60 tonnes of fill and I decided to get him to do a bit of landscape digging while I had him. I knew generally where the power supply sub mains ran down to the shed so I had my son hand dig down to the appropriate levels without finding anything at all. Pretty sure we were good to go, I still decided to isolate the shed at the meter box just in case and I'm glad I did. As is usually the case, just next to where we finished hand digging the depth test holes, on the very last scrape of the bucket, pop. Orange conduit poking out and a broken 6 mm 2C+E PoweRun cable.
The sparky who did the shed for me 15 years ago didn't put any tape over the line when he back-filled the trench. Aaaaarrrggghhhh!!!! He did other underground work for me as well so I can only assume no tape was used for these either.
Do I pull a whole new 50 meter + cable through from the house or just join 12 meters of new cable at the break point and then put it back underground? My son is a 2nd year apprentice but he didn't know the code requirement. He said they would normally just pull a new run if they could and he hadn't yet done one where it was joined. I'm waiting for him to try to find out from his boss. Anybody here know if it's OK to join it or not?
I'm about to go and check if it is still good and safe at the meter box end, still alive at the break when turned back on, and how easy it will be to pull new cable through the conduit that remains at the house end. It is difficult access under a very low house floor.
The sparky who did the shed for me 15 years ago didn't put any tape over the line when he back-filled the trench. Aaaaarrrggghhhh!!!! He did other underground work for me as well so I can only assume no tape was used for these either.
Do I pull a whole new 50 meter + cable through from the house or just join 12 meters of new cable at the break point and then put it back underground? My son is a 2nd year apprentice but he didn't know the code requirement. He said they would normally just pull a new run if they could and he hadn't yet done one where it was joined. I'm waiting for him to try to find out from his boss. Anybody here know if it's OK to join it or not?
I'm about to go and check if it is still good and safe at the meter box end, still alive at the break when turned back on, and how easy it will be to pull new cable through the conduit that remains at the house end. It is difficult access under a very low house floor.