Small garden shed needs supply for x2 socket and a lights.
Client does not want anything fancy like a fuse board due to light usage of garden lawn mowers
Socket will only be used for lawn mowers.
The supply will be taken from the existing ground floor ring, the SWA from the house to the shed...
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...
Hi guys,
I need to run some power in my garden. Depending on what’s required I might be looking for an electrician to do the work. The cable run is about 30m and I want around 4 double sockets along it.
The questions are,
Can I spur it from an existing internal socket? Keeping the spur on the...
I am setting up a new garden workshop. I plan to fit a simple 3-way consumer with RCD in the workshop and running power though an armoured cable from another garden cabin. The garden cabin already as a 32A feed and a consumer unit, but I am unsure of how to run the feed off this consumer unit to...
Saw this D.S video on him trying to rectify a fault on a hot tub supply..
Personally I don't think I would have bothered doing all that digging and jointing to try and get the hot tub temporarily back on as
I personally dislike buried joints unless unavoidable.
I would have insisted I run a...
Can anyone recommend a supplier of Garden lighting who have a good range of reliable equipment and offer technical advice. My Customers are looking for a wow factor, reliability and smart controls.
Gents
I need to run 10mm SWA to building at the end of the garden, the electrician suggests clipping it direct to the fence concrete post which are solid enough and says is permissable as digging a trench is not an option. I am concerned about the UV issue, the support element as the posts are...
Hi i'm looking for some guidance on a garden lighting project before i start. I'm hoping to install a sets of 12v led lawn lights [5 lights, 5w each], with a potential cable length of 50+ meters.
Is 3183P 0.75mm rubber cable sufficient for this length of run [50+m]? What cable size would you...
I have a Philips Lily Hue garden light that has failed due to moisture in it.
Does anyone know if it is possible to open these up to change the led bulb?
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced supplier for 24/12v garden lighting systems.
Looking to install some walkover pathway lights for now and flowerbed and small tree up lighters in the future.
Thanks in advance.
J
Hi guys, quick introduction, I am only qualified as a domestic installer, not a full sparky. My company builds bespoke garden rooms. We have been asked to supply an outdoor dining room for a client and they are extremely keen on having the consumer unit and under floor heating controls on the...
Hi all,
Any help would by greatly appreciated as i have tried everything i possibly can. Heres some info on the situation, installed some spike lights a year or so ago. Couple of weeks ago they tripped so went round and found one of the wiska boxes to have been damage and water had gotten in...
Evening all.
I'm having a garden office installed next week. I work from home so will run a laptop and chargers, lighting, internet router, TV for playtime possibly with an xbox, a music player of some sort. All nothing major.
Now. Last year when I had my house rewired my sparky left a power...
HI all.
Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
Dec 6 2017 we had a garden installation form a local registered electrician.
This was power taken from the consumer unit in my garage.Down to a security light halfway down the garden on a wooden post.With a double socket also fitted to the post.Also...
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I’ve bought a 230v garden spike light from Screwfix, and it comes with 5 metres of HO5RN-F 3 core flex pre installed. There is already some garden lighting installed outside. I’d like to install it in the garden, but the flex would have to run along the ground for about 2 metres before it...
Hi all,
I'm looking at electrifying my garden buildings: a garage a couple of metres from the house with concrete ground inbetween, then a workshop/office 20m away at the bottom of the garden, plus a couple of sockets/lights on the way.
I will absolutely have a registered electrician in to do...
Hello All,
I need help with powering a garden water pump. I need a transformer but don't know which one. Please check the picture.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
Expecting I'll have to put it on the TT but here's the situation...
PME from the house connecting to the armour plus one core of outgoing SWA. Intending to terminate the SWA at a wiska box on back of the shed (outside), connect the armour to the cpc again and that earthing ends there (some...
Installation of new suspended 8m x 2m lighting track in established Barber Salon in London WC2 - installation contractor required. Contact me for details.
can anyone help please. My garden light recently installed will not switch off. I believe it’s a switch issue.
The black and blue in the switch are connected to each other, black coming from mains and blue going to light (neutral). Red from live into switch back to light. (Live) The yellow is...
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