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twopenny

Indeed it's wise to be cautious. Like Freebear I seem to have the mains electric from a street light to my own meter (set in concrete) just a few inches under soil.

Quite a conundrum when I was first creating a garden there and had to be treated with circumspection.

Slinky

FreeBear said:

Power cables and pipes should be at least 750mm below the surface, but this doesn't always happen (My incoming mains is less than 300 below ground at one point). If you have some thick slabs, lay them over the top of the cable, and then a layer of soil for the grass to root in.

Good job you don't need to cover a cable with slabs; we had drainage pipes running across our garden, in a hot summer you could always see where these were as the ground dried out quicker and we got visible dry lines.