Hi all, 2nd year apprentice.
I'm looking to take a supply out to my garage, which is detached, from the DB at the front of the house (2 bed terraced, built 1978~)
The length of run is about 30m (having to go through either loft or under floorboards).
Intend to have a 20A radial and a 6A...
My house is a small 3 / 2 with an attached garage. Recently a new circuit was added to install 2 new ceiling fans in the patio. Can I use the same circuit to add an outlet in the attached garage? Or, does a garage require its own circuit. My garage is not a shop so no plans to run power tools...
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My mother wants a double socket adding next to a desk, behind the desk there is a 10mm (i dont know the MCB in the Consumer Unit) which feeds a workshop outside which in turn has its own CU.
What i was thinking of doing was spurring off the 10mm into a Fused connection unit with a 13A...
I have supply in the garage with its own small consumer unit with a 63a breaker and 1 B6 and 1 B16 breakers. The garage has a ring of sockets coming from the B16 breaker. An electrician has added a wire into the 16amp breaker to a second shed. So that is 2 rings from one B16 breaker. I now have...
Howdy, I'm looking for help with my plan to install an extra internal double socket and an external double waterproof socket to my garage.
I believe its a radial circuit at the moment, with mains electrical supply coming from the house to a fused circuit board, 30A fuse to current double...
I want to verify if the breaker size is correct for the service going into my detached garage. I have 6 AWG cable going from my main panel in my house to a detached garage. The cable length is close to 100 feet from the main panel to the sub panel in the garage and a 60 amp 240V breaker from the...
Hi everyone,
I've got a garage with a circuit that looks like this:
I believe it's a radial circuit coming out of the MCB with a current rating of 20A. It goes in to a switch containing a 5A fuse (fused spur?). It then has two wires coming from it: one for a bulb, and the other for a socket...
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My main feed comes into the garage, feeds into the meter and then out to another box with a 60AMP fuse then into the house consumer unit. There are tails feeding the consumer unit in the garage, which up until recently didn't have any RCD protection. As part of a recent...
I have found out that my electricity supply in my external garage is wrongly connected to my neighbours electricity unit in their house and their supply for their garage is connected to the unit in my house.
This seems to have been the case since the house was built in 2005 but it has only...
To be clear: I will have a qualified electrician doing work for me and I have discussed this with them. I am looking for general advice to help my planning
I’m having a new CU installed prior to a garage conversion (conversion to be done by me). Current CU is on external cavity wall which will...
Hi diyer here, I'm wanting to add two extra double sockets to my garage / workshop. Currently have two double sockets wired with 4mm t+e with a 16 amp breaker In the consumer unit. It looks like a radial circuit as it doesn't loop back to the consumer unit. Can I just continue the circuit with...
Hey all, I bought a big garage that I’m going to subdivide and rent out. I am going to hire an electrician to do all work. This is not a DIY question. I just wanted to ask for advice here before hiring an electrician, so I know what I’m getting into. Thanks in advance.
The space is 2500 sqft...
The garage is 17 mtrs x 15 mtrs in the UKh
The house has a 100 amp supply to the house consumer unit.
The garage consumer unit is fed from a 63amp RCD to a 40 amp B rated mcb in the house consumer unit.
The feed cable to the garage is 10mmsq SWA 3 core with the swa bonded to the earth...
Hi, I have a new Dyno-Glo Garage Heater that I connected to the breaker, and it won't turn on. Multimeter reads 120V going at each node in the heater.
Breaker is a double-pole 30 Amp Stab-Lok, rated for 240V.
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot further, and I'm hoping for some direction, please.
I recently tore down all the wiring in my grandfather’s garage he wired himself and i’m genuinely surprised it didn’t burn to the ground after 40+ years, but there’s some things I need some help with. He’s long gone so that’s that. First off, he only had 1 hot wire supplying 220v to his air...
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I recently bought a new house and I went to check the installation on my garage. There is a double socket and a fused switch (3A) which is connect to the light. When I opened this fused switch, I noticed it is actually a spur.
The way it is wired is that a SWA spur coming from the...
Hi this may be a simple answer to my question but I can't find the answer in the regs
If im fitting a garage board from a consumer unit with RCD protection do I need to have RCD protection in the garage board?
I'm guessing I don't need an RCD at the garage board but I can't find a definite...
Hi all,
Newly qualified electrician here who is in the process of re-wiring my own property.
I have recently converted my old CU (if I can call it that!) in my 1950's property to a full RCBO C.U. (No SPD).
Main fuse is 100A. Double pole isolator fitted prior to C.U.. 100A double pole switch...
Currently, I have a side garage port (with a garage door, but open on the garden side) supplied by a 2.5mm2 radial circuit. The plan is to convert the port to a proper garage next year.
As the bedrooms are currently under refurbishment and the floorboards easily accessible, I would like to make...
Hello everyone,
I have a detached garage with a Subpanel that had all been wired by previous owners of my home. The lights in this garage are turned on and off by using the breaker. I wanted to add an actual light switch, something I've done in the past without a problem. When I opened up the...
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