RichS Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 How fussy have people found service providers to be on the colour of underground ducting. I intend having the gas and electric meter boxes remote from the house by approx 14m and approx. 8m from my boundary, so a max of 25m would suffice for each ducting. The issue I'm finding is that the ductings tend to come in a minimum of 50m rolls so that would waste 50% of each if they insist on them being correctly coloured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I know the DNO will not feed a cable through the wrong coloured duct, which is usually black,but some areas it's red. But if I am reading this correctly, if the meter is remote (as ours is) then it will be YOUR cable, not the DNO's in the duct. I uses SWA mostly buried direct in the ground, only using black duct to bring it up through the foundations into the house. I solved the half reel conundrum by looking on ebay and buying some part rolls of blue and black duct, BUT I still need some yellow gas pipe duct if someone wants to split a roll with me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 As above, our 25mm2 SWA feed from the meter box to the house is run in blue duct, simply because I didn't have any black duct left over. Our DNO (SSE) specified that the duct from the meter to the pole, and the bit under the road, should be 100mm diameter black duct. No idea why they wanted 100mm, as the cable would have easily fitted in a 50mm duct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichS Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 @ProDave, Think I've found the solution to both our issues, this place, https://www.plastics-express.co.uk/ducting/perforated-gas-ducting?kw=%2Bservice %2Bduct&fl=902740&ci=16850003130&network=s&pm=&gclid=CLu3ku6GgdMCFYOfGwodzi0ENA They have 25m rolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 1 hour ago, JSHarris said: As above, our 25mm2 SWA feed from the meter box to the house is run in blue duct, simply because I didn't have any black duct left over. Our DNO (SSE) specified that the duct from the meter to the pole, and the bit under the road, should be 100mm diameter black duct. No idea why they wanted 100mm, as the cable would have easily fitted in a 50mm duct. Mine insisted on 35/38 black smooth duct and as it was only 3m they even provided it for free .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triassic Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 My DNO is very specific, red duct up to the meter box, with the bit from ground level to the box on the wall being white. They were also very specific on the depth of the ried duct and the fact it had to be laid in sand with 100mm above and below the duct. They came out last week and measured the trench depth and sand depth in a number of places, the guy was clear, if he found a problem I'd have to sort it out before they would install the cable in the red duct. After the meter I can do what I want, so I've installed black ducting, no sand and no measuring the trench every couple of metres for depth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 49 minutes ago, RichS said: @ProDave, Think I've found the solution to both our issues, this place, https://www.plastics-express.co.uk/ducting/perforated-gas-ducting?kw=%2Bservice %2Bduct&fl=902740&ci=16850003130&network=s&pm=&gclid=CLu3ku6GgdMCFYOfGwodzi0ENA They have 25m rolls. thanks. Page duly bookmarked, though I probably only need 10 metres of gas duct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney12 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 My DNO (Western Power) chucked a 10mm SWA in the ground, connected it up and said "fill ya ole in m8". They didn't even put the cable in the hockey stick at the meter box saying. "Not struggling to put that in there m8". Mind you it was pouring with rain on the day they did it. The lacky held a golf umbrella over the guy splicing into the cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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