Talked to a homeowner in Olympia who questioned my whole drop bury method

I was burying a feed line in Olympia last Thursday and the homeowner came out and asked why I wasn't using conduit for the last 10 feet to the house. He said he used to work for the phone company and they always sleeved the final run near foundations to avoid frost heave and animal damage. Has anyone else run into issues with exposed drops near house foundations during freeze-thaw cycles?

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oscarm2415d ago

I mean unless you're burying cable in straight gravel or something I don't see how frost heave is your problem. The ground moves a couple inches a year in most places and that coax is way more flexible than the rigid pipe he's talking about. Phone guys dealt with copper that snapped if you looked at it wrong so of course they sleeved everything. Coax doesn't care. I've seen drops that were basically laying on top of the dirt for five years and they worked fine. Animals maybe but that's what the jacket is for. Feel like people overthink this stuff because they saw it done one way in the 80s.

roberts.diana15d ago

Right there with you. People way overcomplicate trenching.