Surely there must be a Reg against this?!

[telectrix]

agree with monkey. just be sure to note on the cert. that your installation was installed using existing cable from house to garage, with the cable having been tested and readings entered on cert.

 

[Badged01]

Have to agree with the comments, doesnt seem to be against the regs provided the run of the conduit is support, cables sufficiently mechanically protected, sealed for water ingress etc ........ and of course that you find it suitable for the environment its being used in. (No kids gonna be swinging on it as Ive seen before!!) If you dont, then dont be putting your signature to any paperwork unless you caveat it to exclude the work already done.

 

[MDJ]

But how far is the garage from the house out of interest?

 

[Rockingit]

OP - I think you're barking up a tree that doesn't exist, tbh. If the cable is mechanically protected then it's fine, no matter how rough it looks or how much you wanted to go practice some SWA glanding. Lying to the client/s is a dispicable notion and is what's driving this industry to the dogs - don't do it.

The only thing you DO have to consider is the maximum loadings that can be applied using that combination of cable type so you can at least practice your voltage drop and adiabatic equations and get your tape measure out. Though, you don't need to bother with the adiabatic really as the regs have been satisfied with CPC CC.

You test the cable/s before energising and commissioning, you mark it as pre-installed on the sheet, and you move on.

 

[BlueToBits]

This sort of thing gives us a bad name. We can't call something non-compliant just because we don't like it or think we can do better. We have to be able to justify exactly why it is non-compliant and that means more than just getting a second opinion from someone on an Internet forum. If I was a customer who had paid out £1000s to dig up and re-lay my new drive because some electrician incorrectly said my overhead conduit was non-compliant, I'd be taking that electrician to court.

 

[amlu]

thats how they do it in in New World:[video=youtube;vJeJvk_0Exc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJeJvk_0Exc[/video]
skip the video to the end part, looks like twin and earth been buried there and no one bothers

 

[telectrix]

is that malcolm with his zimmer frame?

 

[SSE]

Thanks for the advice chaps. I spoke with the mans wife tonight & she informed me she'd rather there was no pipe going from between the house & the garage! Not wanting to cause them a huge hike in price, I suggested to her that I could run the SWA from the garage to inside the house loft (a distance of about 8m) & then just join it in a joint box (not the best I know but believe me a lot better than the visible pipe) throught to the house CU. She's more than happy with this she said. I think if I suggested this way in the first place her husband may have been OK with this, I think he just wasn't keen on a 25m run in SWA because of the price. It's not going to take half an hour to dig the trench & luckily for me my mate has a day off next week & says he'll do it for me (yes he's one of those that can't sit still on a day off unlike me!!). It wasn't even a 10mm T & E he ran in either it was a 6mm! Will still be fine though as it's just a ring & 4 strip lights & I'm sure there ain't going to be a massive voltage drop in a 25m run! Going to try & figure out how to post a picture on here as I took one earlier just to let you's see what he'd done.

 

[SSE]

Here's the picture. Not the worst you've seen I'm sure but I just wasn't wanting to put my name to it, where I live word spreads quick so something rough like this wouldn't do me any favours!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

can be cleated surface on brickwork, no prob.

aye but i dont like grey flat twins clipped on outside walls tel...uv light n all that lot....