Connections to Garden office

Grz.26

Hello all,

I wonder if you can help. I was going to run electricity to my garden office, but i also wanted to run a coaxial cable from my sat dish on the house and also a ethernet cable. I am digging a channel in the garden about 400/500mm down.

What ill like to know is can i run all 3 cables together? Can i run coxial cable underground? What kind of cable. And the same for the ethernet cable. I am unsure on what to get.

Oh its about 20m from house to office.

Any advice appreciated.

Many Thanks,

Rich

Quiet_Spark

You can't run/install any type of permanent electrical supply in your garden unless you are qualified, you will need a sparks for that bit.

As far as the coax/ethernet goes, chuck it down the same bit of conduit because nothing you mention there even comes close to being "mission critical".

johnmc

If you are running power out there then why not use powerline adapters?

I would stick another dish on the office rather than run a lengthy coax.

Quiet_Spark

johnmc wrote: »

If you are running power out there then why not use powerline adapters?

Powerline adaptors are OK as an afterthought, but the OP has the chance to do the job right and there is no reason not to.
Ethernet is miles cheaper than Powerline adaptors and offers far greater speeds and security as well.

Grz.26

Thanks for your replies, yes i would like to do it properly, so i think i will lay it down..

I have a electrician to do it. Im not going to wire it up. I just didnt know if possible for Co-Axial cable, mains, and ethenet to go in same hole, or even that far. But thats for your responses.

Richard.

benje302

Hi

I guess you are going to run the ethernet in some sort of conduit to protect it as opposed to just placing it in the trench ?

Also, when you do it I would place an extra couple of ethernet cables and maybe a spare co-ax incase they go faulty in the future as it will save you digging it back up.

Ethernet needs to be minimum of Cat5e.

Ben

TheCyclingProgrammer

I'd avoid running the ethernet cable right next to the power cable if you can as its best to avoid running these together in parallel.

bluesnake

I would not run the power cable and the electric cable next to each other, but should be OK with a gap.

You could use reinforced hosepipe as a conduit for the network cable, if you want to be cheap. Solid core network cable is best.

Think here in the UK there must me a 2" gap between lv and mains cables, but could be wrong.

This may help
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1716160/network-cable-running-parallel-electrical-cable.html
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=149412

redux

Why bury it? Would it be such an eyesore to have it a few feet up in the air?

Mankysteve

Grz.26 wrote: »

Thanks for your replies, yes i would like to do it properly, so i think i will lay it down..

I have a electrician to do it. Im not going to wire it up. I just didnt know if possible for Co-Axial cable, mains, and ethenet to go in same hole, or even that far. But thats for your responses.

Richard.

it can be would be recommended to run the coax and Ethernet separate from the power cables.

Gloomendoom

I would have thought that the power cable would be screened by the earthed armoured sheath.