No way that conduit is to code , sec is 600mm min ,all else from memory is between the 600 -400 and that conduit is shonky as and makes me wonder how many homes this contractor has done .
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No way that conduit is to code , sec is 600mm min ,all else from memory is between the 600 -400 and that conduit is shonky as and makes me wonder how many homes this contractor has done .
Min depth is 300 on private property (agree that elec is different but I'm a comms guy not a sparktrician so not 100%)... 450 if going under paths/driveways.
Different again if direct buried or shared trench with other comms and again if shared with elec.
IIRC Mudski mates trench looks like on originally private shared long driveway dual occupancy split. First real thought career for me was trenching, grundomat below before open cut always preferred for SEC, GasnFuel and Cable Tele. Back then houses/units at the rear IIRC were at own paid run unlike the front joint?
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Sorry, I thought this was down the side of his driveway? I don't know the layout of the block.Quote:
Originally Posted by the evil twin
No need sorry old mate, almost guaranteed 20+ year ago Dodgey info from @MB ;-)
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Little bit off track, years back, services to rear blocks in Vic as best can remember: 600 power/450 water/ 300 telcoms and legal spreads can’t remember. Poor bugger concrete cutting demo saw bloke removing a granny flat pathway blew his hands (red-black bars) clean off the Stihl from some 10 year ago lazy arse sparky at 100mm. Conduit imprints were still within the slab when we all removed it :-(
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Yeah saw this first hand when up on Groote Eylandte with BHP, some clown buried the fibre optic cables 150mm deep, and years later the local landscapers came thru, no dial before you dig up there, and ripped them up when digging holes for new garden beds! Put comms down for 2 weeks as they had to find a tech willing to go there, plus they had to tear up a long length and bury it a lot deeper. It was simply buried without a conduit - bare cable! Funny thing was its termite country and they love PVC cables to munch on, so I guess the mine dodged a bullet by finding the problem before having a colony slowly munch their way the the cable outer in multiple locations.
Yes it is on my property and down the side of my driveway Phil. If I was informed that I had to dig the trench, which I wasn't, I would have. I even offered NBN co in one of my rants to them on their FB page to dig the trench. On more than one occasion I was told my the contractors that they were to dig the trench.Quote:
Originally Posted by PeeBee
If I have to dig the trench then so be it. I will hire a trencher and do the job right.
Yeah, we used to Grundo anything up to single driveways (if no other services) and Directional Bore everything else.
Bloody Grundomat shot can have a mind of their own where they deflect off too at times tho... 9 out of 10 times it is where they can cause the most damage :-)
I'll try and dig up some photos of incidents I've attended to over the years, where demo saws , Saber saws, crow bars, ditch witches , star spikes , and other instruments that were not rated to 22kV , and the user found that out the hard way.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Wish camera phones were a thing in the early days , as some of them were rippers !
Needles to say, I might have to add them to the pub thread for those with a questionable heart rate .
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