Supply cable to property, installation depth

[Midwest]

My thoughts as well. I suspect other similar properties have the same install. Frightening isn't it.

What gets my goat, is SSE expect us (bank of Mum & Dad) to pay for it to be sorted.

I'll try & post some pics.

 

[Percyprod]

Usually 600mm is the accepted depth for modern service cable, but many estates have the cables installed by contractors. Need I say more.

 

[PEG]

There are thousands of properties,with this as an issue,with gas,too,but the DNO will be working on the principle that it has been fine for 30 years,so...

There are rules,and then there is what happens

I have seen,on more than one occasion,properties where they had originally supplied a gas feed,for the sole purpose of supplying a gas-poker,to light the coal fire - and nothing else.

This then gets coupled to various additional gas appliances,with only a single taper tap....and missing the required and expensive part...the meter

I know of loads of properties,where there is a metered water supply,for everything,except on outside tap,or downstairs loo,which comes from whoknowswhere

The point of all this long-windedness,is that the utilities know there are a host of anomalies out there,and chasing/solving them,would just be a massive cost...

 

[snowhead]

I burst a gas service pipe at my Son's house with an excavator, just under the turf, first strike of digging a trench for a new water service.

Transco came to fix it and confirmed there's no minimum depth for Gas services with Domestic properties, but they will repair free of charge if hit with a spade or similar.
This excludes being hit by an excavator even if operated by the Gas user.

We thought we'd hid the excavator but they recognised the damage as not being done by a spade.
Still only cost about £80 about 15 years ago.

 

[Midwest]

Ground workers have covered up the cable with crushed stone now, so I had to dig a bit up to show the cable;



At least they wrapped some tape round it

 

[UNG]

Had this back in the early 90's at my brothers house found the incoming main cable about half a spade deep across the garden while digging the footings for an extension he was getting built. The DNO (Manweb) engineer that came out to look at moving the service head didn't seem concerned or bothered by it and said they would not put the cable deeper came to an agreement that we would cut a trench under the cable to allow it to go deeper and the Manweb guys would drop it into the trench when they moved the service head and extended the cable to the new mains position.
Given that the house was built sometime in the thirties I'm surprised the cable survived without being struck for so long

 

[steamboatwilly]

Looks like an ideal location for a Metpost there! Scary ...

 

[steamboatwilly]

Looks like an ideal location for a Metpost there! Scary ...

 

[Midwest]

Sent an automated email query to the DNO. Reply came back on Monday to have it inspected, ring this number. Rang the number (their emergency number), told it wasn't an emergency, we'll put you threw to another department, who told me it would cost for them to come and look at it!

I said we want to be told if its safe or not, so put back to emergency dept. Engineer was sent out and inspected, said it was safe, just cover it with some pipe/tape and a layer of concrete. He said the whole estate is like it.