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I ran PVC between my house and shop/office with 2 sets of single-mode fiber instead of ethernet. Electrical code will require proper grounding for copper for li

• veverkap 1mo ago
  Do you have to do PVC or can you just bury the fiber?
  • someothherguyy 1mo ago
    it depends on the cable type, what you are willing to spend, where you live, etc i tried to find a page that wasn't terrible for this, still kind of bad though: https://www.gloryoptics.com/info/how-deep-does-spectrum-bury-their-cable-a-fib-103478356.html https://www.gloryoptics.com/info/how-deep-does-spectrum-bury...
  • krn1p4n1c 1mo ago
    Like /u/someothherguyy said it depends on the cable type. There are shielded and jacketed outdoor cables that don't require PVC/EMT, but usually you'll have to terminate them yourself so there's additional tooling required. I went with PVC because it's the easiest to work with, NEC only required it be buried 12in below the surface for residential, but I went to 24". I oversized the PVC a bit so I had room to run more cables as well. I filled the trench with gravel, ran the PVC over that, then filled over it with some more gravel. A thin layer of dirt, marking tape and then the rest of the dirt. Rent a trencher if you have hard ground. If you're having a licensed electrician do the work of connecting house and office power then you can ask them to run the conduit for it at the same time.