xsspeed Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 When you say trench is filled - just with gravel? Ask them to dig up and stick in another conduit? Just be apologetic and say you meant to tell them before departing but it slipped your mind and didn't think they would lay the trench in the rain etc etc. Oh and have a box of piss under your arm while you are saying this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixx Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 my wireless runs from our bedroom to the garage and the sleepout/ spearfishing shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldturkey Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Less talk of cables and more floor plan sketches of where everything is going to live including cars, workbenches and tools. Is it too late to have them dig a pit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Pits are illegal now arn't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I think so? Or at least very hard to get approval for domestically. Costy too, if they have allready levelled the site for the pad then you'll have a fair bit of abortive work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0R10N Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 yeah pits are illegal (at least in my part of the city). Drainage would also be a complete bastard. wireless to the garage is easy enough - that was the original setup - but the signal was a bit patchy, and the flatmate kept complaining that me constantly streaming music out to the shed was interrupting his porn downloads/interweb gaming due to the bandwidth saturation. When you say trench is filled - just with gravel? Ask them to dig up and stick in another conduit? Nah, completely filled in with dirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 dirt/gravel easy to dig and lay another conduit, so long as they havent poured concrete over the top I'd ask them, they get stuff like that all the time, buy the dudes on site some booze etc, cook them up some snags/buy them a pie, you'll have that in before xmas and not have to worry about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0R10N Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Well the concrete truck is scheduled to turn up tomorrow to start pouring the slab and the sparky is conveniently booked out until the 2nd week of January on other jobs. There hasn't been any werk done since Friday according to my flatmate. Looks like I'll be running cat6 in with the power and cursing the interference. Also unsure of how the alarm wiring will be retrofitted if I run out of space in the conduit... may need to dig it all up again later. Nothing is ever how I want it unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 You don't need a sparky to lay some conduit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Shit I would be digging that up and chucking one in myself, get Ned/dave somneone to come help. It would be an important thing for me, having conduit space in the future is handy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 ^This Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0R10N Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 yeah I have no idea which of the eleven thousand subcontractors did it. Trying to get hold of the garage people to find out who I can talk to - how convenient, "you have reached us during the Christmas period no staff blabla" A pity I didn't take this week off like I was originally gonna. Will talk to Ricardo about having some moar conduit added to the order I'm getting him to total up. Some holes are being dug for drainage soon, maybe I can snake the second one through that and out the opposite end of the garage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHGWAG Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Is there anyway you can wrap/insulate cat6 to cause less interference?? Even if they have compacted the dirt, it'll still be an easy dig - Digging foundations in compacted dirt is way easier than digging through clay, won't take long. I'd do this quick if the concrete is comming tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 You can get shielded cat5/6 I assume they have run a 25mm conduit for the power? this will be pretty much full with the power and a comms cable. I would buy a length or 2 of P25 on the way home and install 2 more conduits to the shed, probably need a bend or to heat and bend it where it comes up into the slab? easy stuff. The ammount of people I meet through my industry who are gutted they didnt install extra conduit = millions, people who regret having some extra pipe = 0. Shit If I was building a shed it would have a couple of 50mm ducts run to it, just becasue I can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0R10N Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 50mm conduit makes sense in hindsight. yeah I'm getting a length of shielded cat6 which should do the trick. If I could get hold of the garage company then I'd know exactly when the next set of contractors are coming to dig the drainage trenches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr1600 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 You can get shielded cat5/6 I assume they have run a 25mm conduit for the power? this will be pretty much full with the power and a comms cable. I would buy a length or 2 of P25 on the way home and install 2 more conduits to the shed, probably need a bend or to heat and bend it where it comes up into the slab? easy stuff. The ammount of people I meet through my industry who are gutted they didnt install extra conduit = millions, people who regret having some extra pipe = 0. Shit If I was building a shed it would have a couple of 50mm ducts run to it, just becasue I can Im gonna run 2 x 50mm when i eventually build the next one..... At least do the bit through and under the slab to the edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Its just something that gets overlooked and is regreted allot. So many people have to cut up new concrete to install extra power circuits, comms or whatever. Half the time this is due to the original conduit being installed shit with tight radius 90deg bends etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horse25 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 just dig your own trench, since its extra low voltage, it doesn't have to be at the same depth as 230v can always be done at a later date, just come up the wall in flexible conduit about 200mm into an end box still looks tidy, before the walls are lined though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTERUS Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 If the concrete isn't poured by saturday, I'll give you a hand to lay some cable home boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 yeah, cable laying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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