Can incoming mains run above ground under suspended floor?

[James Rolfe]

What has your builder or spark said

The builder isn't on board yet, I'm currently deciding between quotes and doing as much research up front so that I can project plan and budget properly

 

[Octopus]

Best you be sitting down when you get pricing and timescales for moving it..........

 

[James Rolfe]

Best you be sitting down when you get pricing and timescales for moving it..........

Indeed!! A grand and 8 weeks is what someone said. I cried....

 

[Octopus]

Indeed!! A grand and 8 weeks is what someone said. I cried....

The realities of having extensions:

35% of the budget goes under the ground
the other 65% goes very quickly

The 20% contingency fund is spent before you consider internal finishes..........

Best you check that the gas isn't affected too AND based on our experience, make sure you know precisely where all the drains are - we "found" the estate surface water drain where we wanted our foundations to go and a man hole where a wall was due to be built!

 

[Megawatt]

Hi all. I'm looking for some expert advice on the above. I am having an extension built and the footings are a raft slab which can be built/poured under the existing incoming mains cable (it's in a black pipe approx 50mm dia). There will be a suspended floor approximately 100mm above the slab. Can I leave the existing cable where it is and build the raft below it and floor above it? ie it it allowed to run within the extension but under the floor? I could put a more robust pipe around it for greater protection if necessary? Thanks in advance for your thoughts/advice.

I don’t know if this will work but I did a job in Virginia and they had raised floors about a foot high and installed 35 control cabinets and transformers. We used tray cable wire , did not have to use conduit and that job turned out awesome

 

[Zerax]

I don’t know if this will work but I did a job in Virginia and they had raised floors about a foot high and installed 35 control cabinets and transformers. We used tray cable wire , did not have to use conduit and that job turned out awesome

I don't know the OP... but I think it's unlikely he'll want to move to Virginia... but great idea though.