Accidentally cut a black cable!!

[General Maximus]

I had to do it in my garden. I ran an electric cable from my hours to the middle of the garden to power a pump for a fountain and it was made crystal clear that it had to be a certain depth and I had to buy a special yellow plastic stuff like clingfilm to lie above it covering the width of the trench so if anybody digs down that deep they hopefully see it before they cut the cable.

[techguyone]

If you're going to get a virgin install, just order it, plead ignorance when/if the engineer says anything, they'll fix as part of the install. Shhh...

[jb66]

Electric cable has different regulations than a virgin cable

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I had to do it in my garden. I ran an electric cable from my hours to the middle of the garden to power a pump for a fountain and it was made crystal clear that it had to be a certain depth and I had to buy a special yellow plastic stuff like clingfilm to lie above it covering the width of the trench so if anybody digs down that deep they hopefully see it before they cut the cable.

I suspect that has more to do with the presence of mains electricity than preventing damage to a cable. If you put a spade through a mains cable, you may well be killed. If you put a spade through a virgin media cable, you probably won't.

[General Maximus]

oh, I just assumed it was a standard practise for any type of cabling you lay when you are doing construction/building work. It makes sense all round.

[New comer]

Thanks all, this is very helpful.