How To Get Landscape Lighting Wire Under Sidewalk

This article will show you an inexpensive tip on how to protect low voltage landscape lighting wires.

How to get landscape lighting wire under sidewalk. Add a piece of spacer back in once your direct burial cable has been installed. Youll need a piece of PVC pipe about 1 in diameter slightly longer than the walkway youre going to tunnel under. I bought one that was 72 long to go under a sidewalk about 60 wide.

Most low-voltage landscape lighting wire comes in two different sizes. Ive read that the best way to accomplish this is to dig a trench on either side of the sidewalk and using a pipe and a water hose push the pipe through using the water to dig through the earth under the. Tee If you need to run wire for a lengthy distance like under a sidewalk or driveway a tee run places the transformer at the end of the center for the T while.

Most of these wires are buried under bark mulch or are installed in conduit. This is often an ideal place to cross a sidewalk if you can get the wire deep enough. One of the ends should be cut at an angle.

Any system under 200 watts will be fine using 16 gauge wire. Before digging under a sidewalk see if theres already a large gap in a control joint. Im trying to run some low voltage landscape lighting wire and I have a 5 path to cross in two spots.

Dig out about three feet on either side. Dig out a trench to one side of the sidewalk a little bit longer than the PVC pipe and about 4-5 down. Unscrew both of the electrical caps and disconnect only the fixture wiring keeping the other two wires together.

In this video tutorial I will show you how to run landscape lighting wire under your sidewalk and across your lawn without destroying your yardDrill Bit. Note the length and the bias cut on the one end. 1 Pound conduit through.