bury conduit

Posted by Billy Thompson on September 15, 2005, 9:58 pm

I just dug a trench to bury some coax cable...thinking of putting it
into 2" pvc conduit (in it will be 4 runs of cable...directv).

I'd also like to run electric to a garage at the end of the trench
(about 50'), can i run romex in the pvc with the coax? any other tips
or suggestions?

Posted by Don Young on September 15, 2005, 9:45 pm

No. Install 2 conduits in same trench.
Don Young

>I just dug a trench to bury some coax cable...thinking of putting it
> into 2" pvc conduit (in it will be 4 runs of cable...directv).
> I'd also like to run electric to a garage at the end of the trench
> (about 50'), can i run romex in the pvc with the coax? any other tips
> or suggestions?

Posted by RBM on September 15, 2005, 10:49 pm

You can get direct burial coax cable and direct burial UF cable for the
electric

Posted by Art Todesco on September 16, 2005, 2:33 am

You really don't want to run power and
coax in the same conduit. I just
ran a 250 foot run in my church between
2 building to extend internet and
telephone from one building to another.
Rather than using pvc conduit and
glue joints every 10 feet, we used a
300' coil of 1" ID "irrigation pipe." This
was all one piece. It was burried using
a trenching tool .... I didn't see it
done.
I had to do a little custom grinding to
fit standard plastic boxes at the ends,
but the whole thing worked real well.
We pulled 6 cat5e cables for internet
and our Partner telephone system. Each
rectangular box at the ends has 6
RJ-45 connectors us use as needed.
We're only using 3 right now, but we
have 3 extras for growth.

Billy Thompson wrote:

> I just dug a trench to bury some coax cable...thinking of putting it
> into 2" pvc conduit (in it will be 4 runs of cable...directv).
>
> I'd also like to run electric to a garage at the end of the trench
> (about 50'), can i run romex in the pvc with the coax? any other tips
> or suggestions?

Posted by Billy Thompson on September 15, 2005, 11:37 pm

> Rather than using pvc conduit and
> glue joints every 10 feet, we used a
> 300' coil of 1" ID "irrigation pipe." This
> was all one piece. It was burried using
> a trenching tool .... I didn't see it
> done.

I may go with direct burial electric cable and then check out your idea
for the coax and irrigation pipe...luckily my home wireless network
covers my garage!

thanks.

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