Hi, after some advice on garage door wiring, know someone who’s having an electric garage door fitted, I presume it’s just fitting a switched spur and then garage lads will do the rest?
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I’m after a bit of advice please. I recently had an old asbestos garage taken down and have replaced it with a brick structure inc a study done in line with building regs. I was going to reuse the old (fairly modern) board which was run from main cu with rcd but no rcd on garage board so I...
To supply power to new garage 20 meters at bottom of garden from main house.
Plan to run a three core 4mm SWA to garage, fit a metal clad two way dB with 30ma RCD in garage. Using one off the three cores together with the armour as cpc.
At the house end terminate swa in An adaptable box...
To supply power to new garage 20 meters at bottom of garden from main house.
Plan to run a three core 4mm SWA to garage, fit a metal clad two way dB with 30ma RCD in garage. Using one off the three cores together with the armour as cpc.
At the house end terminate swa in An adaptable box...
We are going to run Teck90 or ACWU cable underground from house to garage. There will be just a 60A breaker in the house and garage for now but want to lay a large enough cable to carry 100A in the future. We have approximately 60 ft of ACWU #3/0 aluminum to make the run. It is about 2" in...
Got prefab garage to first fix, debating whether or not to use the spit gun to fix to the concrete or just stick to plugs and screws.
Always used the nailer on much more substantial lumps of concrete, worried about shattering parts of the panels off.
Anyone successfully used the nailer on one of...
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A client's neighbor has given permission to pass an swa under his driveway to reach my clients neighboring semi detached garage. New build nightmare scenario with shared driveways.
An agreed level of making good the driveway shall be confirmed probably by third party as my client...
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I am looking at adding one new socket to my garage and two wall lights. I have a plan of attack and would like the advice of the professionals if at all possible ?.
There is an existing socket in the garage which is part of the ground floor socket ring circuit. The existing ring circuit...
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I’m gonna check out my garage again this weekend.
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Quick question for any pro sparks - all the cabling in my garage (separate from house) is run through metal conduit. I need to move and replace the light fitting, sockets, and switches, and rather than cut and try to bend the metal conduit, I'd like to replace it all with plastic stuff...
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My Garage is attached to my house and currently there is a standard 3 core cable running from my consumer in there. I have just had my consumer upgraded/replaced and starting renovations on the bedroom directly next to the garage so would like to replace the cable as well. As the cable...
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I’m planning to install a consumer unit in my garage. The unit will eventually power a 32amp hot tub, 2 double sockets and a small lighting circuit.
The distance from the house CU to garage CU will be about 10m. I plan to run single cables through 20mm steel conduit under my concrete...
Hi, I am a retired IT professional. In the past I have worked for some large companies and for the last 10 years of my working life I was providing IT support for private clients and small and medium sized enterprises.
Although I have no electricians qualifications, I have always undertaken...
Hello I am new to this forum and need a little help from an experienced spark to help me design a circuit to wire a detached garage (two sockets and ceiling lights) from a house ring main to 18th edition standards. This will be notifiable so everything has to be pukka. Cable can be in steel...
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I am a time served domestic electrician but have been factory based for the last 8 years meaning my SJIB card has lapsed.
I am currently converting an internal garage at my house and am doing the electrical work myself.
I am installing 2 new sockets on an existing circuit and...
Hi have a TT CU in property with RCDs, Earth strap appears fine and solid. A 25meter cable has been run from RCD as a single 32 amp cct to a hot tub that is no longer present.. I want to reroute the cable
to a garage for lights and sockets. The main question is do I need to use another RCD...
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