Detectamesh Detectable Underground Warning Tapes
Cable Protection | Marking | Identification | Warning Tapes & Covers
Cable & Pipe Warning Tapes
Detectamesh
Detectamesh detectable underground warning tapes, manufactured by Boddingtons, are coloured plastic detectable mesh netting for cable marking and detecting buried underground pipes, cables and utility service lines.
Boddingtons warning tapes covers can be used in conjunction with cable protection covers, cable and pipe locators or cable avoidance tools for the location of underground cables and lines.
Detectamesh detectable mesh is manufactured from high strength coloured rot resistant homopolymer polypropylene plastic mesh incorporating a traceable stainless steel wire or aluminium foil strip, and overprinted with a warning message in black. Available in a range of colours including blue, green, red and yellow.
The warning message can be printed to suit the users requirement subject to minimum order quantities. Texts can be printed for gas lines, electrical cables, water lines, sewer lines and fibre optic cable lines or pipes offering cable protection for a range of different applications.
Pictured: Detectamesh Detectable Mesh – protection of underground water mains pipes.
Detectamesh Underground Warning Tapes
Features & Benefits
- Special manufacturing available: Widths (inches): 4″, 8″, 12″ & 20″
- Lengths : 328 feet to 820 feet
- Special manufacture available any colour, size, text or language
- Detectamesh manufactured to BS EN 12613:2001
- Bagged for storage and protection
- Bespoke texts manufactured to order
- Cable crimps, lugs, connectors and crimping tools available
Underground Warning Tapes
Technical Specification
Warning tapes are available for the protection and visual identification of electric, water and gas utility services:
| Detectamesh Text / Colour | Size | Boddingtons Part Number | Detectamesh Image |
| Caution Water Main Below – Blue | 200mm x 100m | 016747 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution Water Main Below – Blue | 200mm x 100m | 016761 – (Ali/foil) | |
| Caution – Storm Water Culvert Below – Blue | 200mm x 100m | 016846 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Buried Gas Pipe – Yellow | 200mm x 100m | 016167 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Electric Cable Below – Yellow | 200mm x 100m | 016181 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Fibre Optic Cables – Green | 200mm x 100m | 017263 – (Wire) |  |
| Raw Water Main Below – Green | 200mm x 100m | 045969 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution: Sewer Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017508 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Fire Mains Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017584 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Sewerage Pumping Main Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017607 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Gravity Sewer Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017621 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Pressure Sewer Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017645 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Non Potable Water Main Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017683 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Fuel Pipe Below – Red | 200mm x 100m | 017669 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Telephone Cable Below – Green | 200mm x 100m | 017126 – (Wire) |  |
| Caution-Street Lighting Cable Below – Yellow | 200mm x 100m | 016082 – (Wire) |  |
Detectamesh Installation
- It is recommended that the detectable mesh be buried halfway between the buried service and the surface of the earth.
- Unroll the Detectamesh onto the backfill in the trench ensuring that it is earthed at both ends.
- Join the wires of rolls or cut lengths using Boddingtons crimps.
- Backfill the trench further to the surface.
- The mesh can easily be detected down to one metre.
- Please consult T&D for further details of the exact depth your equipment can locate to.
Detectamesh Detectable Mesh Installation
Boddingtons Crimps & Crimping Tool
Crimping Tool – 043385 | Stainless Steel Wire Crimps – 043347
It is essential that all joints in the Detectamesh are completed using Boddingtons joining crimps to enable a strong corrosion resistant connection. The crimping tool has serrated jaws to ensure a good connection and prolonged security. If the mesh wire is not connected correctly then the signal may not pass from roll to roll. To ensure a continuous signal along the mesh it is important to use Boddingtons wire crimps and crimping tool. This gives the join sufficient strength to cope with most back fills. If it is not installed correctly then the signal may not pass from join to join.
- Peel back the top tape at one end to expose the wire
- Insert the crimp over the wire on one of the mesh rolls. Push the wire right through so that about 5mm protrudes from the end
- Insert the wire from the other mesh into the crimp
- Crimp the joint together using the crimping tool
- Check that you have a strong connection by pulling firmly on the two ends. If the wire comes out, make the connection again
- The Detectamesh can now be laid and the trench back filled
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Detectamesh Detectable Underground Warning Tapes – Data SheetDownload
