Garden Lights + Power ... Which SWA Cable / How Many Cores?

[Dave OCD]

Sounds familiar, we end up being pressured by others and it always seems to be when you're already flat out busy.:smile5:

 

[davesparks]

I wouldn't trust a landscape gardener to bury cables correctly, make sure you supervise them if they are directly burying them. They'll ignore your instructions about a bed of soft sand and sifted backfill materials!
It is much better to have them bury ducts and pull the cables in afterwards.

 

[Aindowsimon]

Ye duct seems to be a great solution for you're situation

 

[Richard Burns]

I was looking at using a single SWA cable because it will need to be run on the surface for a bit, along the wall of the house, so I thought that one cable would look better than two cables.

So take a single SWA along the house and at the end of the house split the circuits into two cables.

And ducting would be a far better thing to bury at the moment just remember to put a draw wire in it.

 

[davesparks]

Run conduit along the house wall to an adaptable box, then terminate your SWAs into that.

 

[tigerpaul]

I'd just run a 2 or 3 core and have the socket and lights on the same circuit.

 

[shanky887614]

I'd just run a 2 or 3 core and have the socket and lights on the same circuit.

the switch is going inside so he is talking about a swL in the swa.

i agree with above conduit to adaptable box or a single 4c to adaptable then 2x2/3c to sockets+lights.