Laying armoured cable in post Crete

[Chris.]

Hiya new here yesterday I put a new fence up in my garden and while putting the posts in I came across an armoured wire running to the garage. The wire was right where the posted needed to be so the posts went in and so did the post Crete. Now all the electric has gone in the garrage anyone know what might have happend I thought it would have been OK as it was armoured.

thanks 

chris 

 

[apprentice87]

Are you a village idiot????

john...

 

[Andy™]

i doubt postcrete on a cable would do anything to it, especially short term. most likely reason is that you have damaged it when digging the holes

an armoured cable can easily be damaged, the armour will give it a bit more protection, but one of its main purposes is to help ensure ADS if its damaged which you have most likely done, and the armour has then don its job

looks like its time to remove the post and dig an area around it to repair it or replace it

 

[Chewbacca]

Are you a village idiot????

john...

no need for that John

 

[apprentice87]

Sorry......

john...

 

[Doc Hudson]

Hiya new here yesterday I put a new fence up in my garden and while putting the posts in I came across an armoured wire running to the garage. The wire was right where the posted needed to be so the posts went in and so did the post Crete. Now all the electric has gone in the garrage anyone know what might have happend I thought it would have been OK as it was armoured.

thanks 

chris 

I would think that the answer to your question that I have underlined in blue, is the other bit I have underlined in dark black.  As soon as you identified there was a cable there the first thing would have been to get the cable tested to verify it had not been damaged by the digging. Then suitably protect or divert it so the insertion of your post and its fixing would not further damage the cable. You still need it fully tested now to find out if its repairable or replacement needed.

Doc H

 

[Murdoch]

Have you got any test kit - because thats th first step...

 

[Tony S]

I think testing the cable would be a wasted exercise.

 

[Evans Electric]

Is it just one post hole you think may have damaged the cable ?

If you have no test instruments  you need to dig out and look for damage ,  You also need to switch that cable off .

May be looking at cutting out the damaged bit and jointing a new bit in .  ( Unless you've damaged it at every post hole , then its a new cable)

Are you an electric type person or not ?

 

[Chewbacca]

Sorry......

john...

may the force be with you.

 

[ProDave]

Hiya new here yesterday I put a new fence up in my garden and while putting the posts in I came across an armoured wire running to the garage. The wire was right where the posted needed to be so the posts went in and so did the post Crete. Now all the electric has gone in the garrage anyone know what might have happend I thought it would have been OK as it was armoured.

thanks 

chris 

Have any fuses blown or circuit breakers tripped?  It would be very unlikely for you to have severed the cable to stop power getting through without anything tripping.

 

[Tony S]

 

[Blue Duck]

T&E would do the same job....

:innocent

 

[Andy™]

but its armoured so it'll be fine

 

[Bruspark]

Tony,  Should be good if you make sure the Insulating tape matches the cable colour . . .

ray ray

 

[Tony S]

A couple of connectors and wrap a plastic bag around it.

I’ve had that happen to me. Plant operators damaged a cable, it didn’t go bang so they wrapped a bag around it and buried it not telling anyone. The cable was dead but I was going to extend it to feed a new pump house. It tested OK given its age and so made it live, I never gave it another thought after that.

It had been one of those rare summers of fine sunny days and then it rained.

 

[kerching]

Day one of a 12 month refurb/virtual rebuild of a local BFO house the builder lifted the service up on his diggers bac actor. Nicked the sheath slightly so,wrapped a bit of self amalgaming tape on it, split a bit of pipe over it, buried it, left it

a few months later on there was rain for about a week non stop....



DNO classed it as a legacy fault somfixed it at no charge!



Stripped,back so,they could cut it upstream of fault....you can see where the self amalg tape rolled back to. I though they were working a tad too close to the original fault as it was only 18" away from this cut



Pieced in a bit of 35mm. Al split conn....happy days

 

[Tony S]

Now that shows concentric can be made off neatly.

Sorry E54 )-: (it’s an old argument we had many years back)

 

[leesparkykent]

Now that shows concentric can be made off neatly.

Sorry E54 )-: (it’s an old argument we had many years back)

Have you heard from E54 lately Tony? miss his input.

 

[Tony S]

Sorry but no.

Last time it looked like he was on the road to recovery, but that was about a year ago. My ex boss is on a site near where E54 was engineer, he couldn’t find anything out.

I fear the worse.