63mm ducts for electric kiosks. Does anyone sell 5m rather than 50m?

[saveasteading]

Suggestions of suppliers please.

I'm very surprised to find that the electric merchant I've been recommended to use doesn't stock flexi ducts as required by UKPN.

i. e.  63mm ext, 50mm internal  bendable to radius.

It's as if nobody had ever done this before. They can get a 50m coil but that seems easy enough online, tho prices are all over the place.

Does that mean that the wuality varies too? I'm seeing why people use drain pipe.

I've suggested they merchant  buys a coil and sells me 5m.

[saveasteading]

Success. The duct that wouldn't bend has given in on a warmer sunny day, with a lot of force. But this will do nicely.

It could do with being another 100mm off the fence, as it is tight for kiosk space. I'll try blocking  the curve out lower down, or else leave it less vertical.

 

The outlet duct won't ever have to work as a duct: the cable could be cast in the concrete. But for appearances I will put a vertical piece of duct offcut in.

 

I know that is too shallow but it is very local and we will raise the ground level instead.

 

 

[Onoff]

Did you manage to just get a short bit in the end?

[saveasteading]

No. This was already in, by the vendor. Their builder put in the duct and the water to here. We now take over and erect the kiosk and then UKPN heave a cable through from a nearby pole.

The ducts only seem to come in 6m stiff pipes, or 50m coils of the stuff shown, or 50m coils of flexi. 

This explains why we see people using drainage pipe etc.

I've suggested to the electrical merchant that they buy 50m and cut it for their customers.

Of my order to the recommended supplier, they have not provided anything direct other than the earth cable. The main cable came from a cable distributor, another cable is on special order ( I could get it online tomorrow), and even  hockey-sticks for the earth cable were cross-bought from JDP.

 

I've been given a 1m offcut and that can be used for our cable entry.  We will just thread the cable end through it, and position on the slab shutter.

 

I'm leaving 1m sticking out of the slab into the kiosk. I  would be scared cutting the cable to connect inside the kiosk...if that goes wrong, there is 50m of underground cable that can't be pulled.    but it is presumably everyday for an electrician.