Morning Lads
Hope everyones having a nice break over the hols, i have been caught relaxing too much and strong armed into completing the endless list of already active jobs. After replacing the abortion of a CU under the stairs to a fancy, hager-high integrity 17th ed to accommodate an rcbo for...
Hi, I've recently moved house and have some questions on the existing wiring setup for the cable to the shed.
The house has had a recent extension but the certificate and documents do not explicitly mention the cable to/and the shed so I can only assume that was not tested at the time.
The...
I've been asked to provide an estimate for renewing some twenty/thirty year old garden lighting. Currently it's wired in this thin rigid white cable, picking it up it feels like the sheathing is metallic. It looks like it goes all the way back to the CU. Obviously I'm going to rip it out and...
Evening all.
My client wants to have a set of Christmas tree type lights in one of her small trees in the garden. She wants these lights to stay in all year round. It's easy enough to find IP rated lights but then the plug needs to be plugged in indoors. I need to to find a solution where the...
I am building a granny flat for my increasingly wobbly mother in our garden. All proceeds well so far except it has obviously cost more than expected!
My electrician suggested to save ourselves money, we can put in the three core armoured cable that he will attach to the electrical supply in...
I have for years been trying to get my existing split-phase supply upgraded to three phase. The DNO sent me a succession of ridiculous quotes, all around the £25K mark.
No amount of negotiation, or pointing out that the existing transformer - which supplies only three houses - was ancient, had...
I have a set of double insulated LED garden brick lights that I installed about 5 years ago, Recently they tripped the RCBO and would not reset. The fault is L&N to earth, about 0.2 mega ohms. The install is SWA terminated into galvanized conduit boxes filled with magic jell.Thinking the jell...
I've been to quote on a job today where the customer had dug a pond / water feature in to the garden. their is no raised edge around the pond, it will go grass, edging bricks, water all at about the same level. it's a very minimalist look he is going for. the edge of the feature is about 2M from...
Sorry if this a very basic question
But under your current electrical regulations are 12volt circuit exempt ?
I have a 230volt socket outlet circuit in my garden tested and approved
I wish to install garden lighting ..the whole of which is plug and play
I plug the transformer into the...
Hi,
I just thought I would share with you what I have been doing in my garden.
I have put in 4x Saxby Equinox bollard lights with 23w CFL lamps.
and 5x 6w GU10 spots, three in the middle and one either side of the garden shining on the trees.
All controlled by the gubbins at the back, an...
Hello- I am installing an SWA cable down a garden to a shed which is going to be used as a recording studio. It will not have enormous current requirements, probably along the lines of a normal house with ring mains etc. plus maybe an airconditioner.
Would a 31 amp rated 2 core + earth SWA be...
Hi,
ive got a load of garden lights I'm putting in at the moment that's going to be on various configurations. Anyway, I want to link a couple of PIRs together and also link it to trigger some other lights too on another circuit.
enays the best way to do this? I need some kind of wirelessly...
Hi all, hoping to get the right advice here and pointed in the right direction.
I have 6x IP 44 rated light bulkheads, these will be for the garden. 2x on the side of the garage and 4x at the back of the garden.
I would like to be able to switch the garage ones on/off and rear garden ones...
I have a client I have been doing some work for who is bed ridden 24/7
He is a great guy and even though he rarely gets to see his garden he employs a gardener to maintain it and gets her to take pictures.
I suggested getting a garden camera or wildlife camera so he could watch the birds on...
Hi, I,m running a supply to my neighbour,s new garage and would appreciate advice on cable size. It will be 3 core SWA running underground. The max load will be around 8A and that only for small periods(power tools) other than that only lighting,and total run will be about 30mts from house DB. I...
Good evening, I have bollard style lighting to install in a customers garden, was looking for any ideas that anyone has both for the lights and the installation method.
My current plan is to get bolt down bollard style lights and intall them on breeze block pads with a hole cored through the...
Sorry if this is not the correct wat to post my query, I am new to the site. I am not a spark but would like to tap into the skills and experise on here before I set off on the wrong course with my current spark. I am having a garden office built, it has had its own CU installed but my ex spark...
Hi all,
We had some old garden lights, most of which had stopped working years ago. I've removed them all now, but the cable is still embedded in the fabric of the wall and where it emerges from the wall I've left the conductors terminated in a simple connector block. Is there a more...
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