External cable

[Thedreamer]

Going to be purchasing my treatment tank in the next few days and will need to have a cable coming through the wall. 

 

What is the best method for protecting the cable which will run down a bit of the wall?

[ProDave]

If it is steel wire armoured (which it would have to be to be buried) then just run it up the wall and in through the hole secured to the wall with cleats.

[Onoff]

If it's SWA just cleat to the wall or belt and braces cap it with a length of Loblite or similar but you can do that later if at all.

[Thedreamer]

@ProDave @Onoff Thanks.

 

I was thinking if I was taking a cable through the wall is it worth just putting an external double socket and having one cable going off to the treatment tank.

 

What did you do for your treatment tank @ProDave and have others on here had a wire through the wall or should I have been clever and put in a duct when we were doing the foundations?

[Jeremy Harris]

We ran a duct underground for the power, at the same time as we put the treatment plant in, which was during the ground works, before the house build itself was started.  The cable's a run of SWA that connects to a watertight distribution box near the treatment plant, with the cables to the air pump, water pump and alarm system made off from there.

[ProDave]

In my case the treatment plant end the SWA glands into a waterproof junction box, in my case just for the air blower pump.  At the house end the SWA glands into the metal case of the consumer unit.

 

Don't make things more complicated than they have to be.