How do I repair a section of rusted electrical conduit in a flower bed?

While preparing a flower bed I came across a rusted and broken conduit wich contains an electrical line that controls a light in the detached garage. The line comes out from under contrete stairs through the flower bed and back under a conrete deck. How can I fix this? Can I cut and splice the line re-bury it with new conduit, or do I even need the conduit?

You can replace the rusted section of pipe however; you will need to replace the wire through the conduit from box to box. This can sometimes be tricky if the pipe is rusted in other areas you can''t see. You could end up ruining the wire and loosing power to the lights. You should never make an open splice in the ground!

As an alternative, you could install a buried PVC junction box to splice the wire after replacing the section of pipe. If you have a ground wire you will need to reconnect it or you may loose the ground between conduits.

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Hope that helps!

Labels: Landscape Lighting System, Low Voltage Light Fixtures, Outdoor Path Lights

posted by xinger @ 9:29 PM