Cheap/most suitable pipe for laying under lawn to take Cable for garden lights? MDPE?

lancslass2008

Hi all

I have seen some lovely lights in my local garden centre that require wiring into the mains. What I was thinking of doing is lifting the lawn up and putting a pipe under the lawn about 12 inches deep. Then I was going to lay the lawn back over the pipe. Now, I have seen that Blue MDPE Pipe that you use for water pipes. This would seem fine, but the problem is:

I want lights at intervals of 1 metre apart. Of course to do this I would need to drill a hole in the Blue pipe and run the cable UP through the hole up through the soil to the surface, which I'm not comfortable with. Therefore, I could do with a suggestion for cheap piping that is solid enough to not break if it is accidentaly hit by a spade (when hedging the garden). This pipe would also have push fittings so at every metre I could cut the pipe, push fit a T junction (upside down) and run the cable up to the surface this way. Also, at the edge of the lawn, I'd push fit a 90 degree fitting.

Anybody any ideas on what type of pipe would be suitable and is cheap.

Thanks all.

ormus

i presume they are 6/12 volts from a transformer? in which case almost any conduit pipe will do. bury it deep enough.

doing it all with 240 volts is a very different animal.