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  1. Dan Carroll

    Supply to outbuilding

    Hi team. A couple of questions for you. Just to explain as well. I've just completed the level 2 & 3 diploma, and I'm now trying to work out in the big wide world. All of this is in regards to a studio outbuilding. The outbuilding is located about 25 meters away from the house. It is fed...
  2. M

    Shower Wiring in Granny Annexe

    Hi All, I am Faraz, I'm a Mechanical Project Engineer by trade. This is my first post on these forums. I am looking for some insight into a problem I'm having. I currently have a 6mm Cable running from the main RCD to a 9.8kW shower in a Granny Annexe. the wire currently runs about 25m long...
  3. M

    Earthing an Outbuilding

    This is my first posting here - I am not an electrician so please bear with me. I am trying to establish the best method to provide earthing of a 60A supply to a new build garage / workshop to be taken from a domestic residence. The incoming supply to the house is TN-C-S with a supplementary...
  4. J

    Outbuilding or garage supply

    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...
  5. G

    Advise on whether outbuilding should be TT’d

    Hi all first post so please go easy on me. Just to give a bit of background on myself I have been qualified for 12 years and have recently completed my 18th edition and 2391. I’ve recently been carrying out an EICR on a MOD industrial waste water treatment site. The question I have is about a...
  6. G

    SWA to Garden Outbuilding

    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...
  7. Tom Wallington

    Electric shower in outbuilding 55m from consumer unit

    Hi we've built a cabin in our garden and we're using it as a second home, because every now and then the house will flood and we have to move out! It's an old listed mill building and there is nothing we can do to fix or stop the problem other than to rebuild the house. So we want all the mod...
  8. M

    Type of cable to outbuilding but on bricks.

    Hi. I am going to to new circuit at customer's dwelling and best way is to to do it outside of the house but laying cable on mortar/bricks. Can I use twin&earth cable and use trunking or only armoured cable. Thanks Mac
  9. R

    PME METAL OUTBUILDING

    Scenario encountered: New submain looks to have been taken from a PME supply in 4c 10mm SWA with no copper earth to a external metal feeder pillar. The SWA has been glanded into new metal clad DB within the feeder pillar effectively incorporating it into the PME supply. A Earth has also been...
  10. P

    Consumer unit in each outbuilding

    I recently quoted work for a guy which included a new consumer unit (TNS), and then noted that his summerhouse (about 40' from the house) and garage (a further 20' from the summerhouse) didn't have consumer units in them (Both had sockets and lights in them), so I made him aware that they both...
  11. R

    Outbuilding supply TNC-S to TT - Oil heating system

    Hi, I have looked at a job where the house is TN-C-S and it is heated via oil from a tank in the outbuilding. I can see the pipe feeding the house from the outbuilding oil take is metal and runs underground. The customer wants an electrical supply in the outbuilding where the tank is, he...
  12. captaincaveman

    Outbuilding with multiple supply

    Hi lovely people. Just thinking aloud here wondering if anyone has any points I should consider. Been to do a quote on an outbuilding which has had an electrical supply for some time for lights & a couple of sockets. The building is basically a lounge with toilet & utility room. The owner wants...
  13. D

    Power to outbuilding- Consequences of extraneous-conductive-parts on choice of SWA size

    I realise this is a much-discussed topic, I have certainly read a lot on the forums already! However I wish to ask about the subtitles of earthling the outbuilding and the cost/practicality consequences. The outbuilding (a DIY’s workshop) will have one socket ring and two lighting radials. I...
  14. S

    PEB to external tap on outbuilding

    Hi guys, Went to look at a job today where they are wanting power installing into an outbuilding. The outbuildings consist of an outside toilet and a store room. I noticed they also had a outside tap. The water is bonded in 10mm inside the house and the water supply to the outbuilding is...
  15. D

    Underground Cable to Outbuilding

    Hello! The last few years, we have provided electrical service to our crib via an extension cord running from our detached garage (fed with 12-2 w/ ground 71 ft from the main breaker in the house) to the crib. We run a couple of 60 watt lights and a heater for our chicken waterer. I want to...
  16. Sparky_marky2

    SWA armour supply to outbuilding, what CSA cable? and Reference Method?

    Hi guys, I am running a supply to an outbuilding that requires a 22m run from the Main CU (in the garage) to the CU in the outbuilding, at the Main CU it will be a 40A MCB supplying an 63ma RCD protected sub board which will then supply: 6A type B MCB for 12 downlights and an extractor fan 32A...
  17. M

    Supply to outbuilding (Shed)

    Good evening I am an electrician from abroad, I have my 17th edition pased in UK and I am working as an electrician in industry since 2012. I would like to power my shed with a 2.5mm Armoured cable. Can enyone tell me if I can do it as described in digram below. Do I need the socket outlet...
  18. A

    PME or TT or Both To Caravan Or Outbuilding

    hi I'm a part qualified electrician gaining exp wherever I can whilst doing my college course. Today we were hooking up a static caravan with 3 core swa. All was good until we started doing the tests. With the pme connected I was getting 0.26 as an earth loop at the board in the van. The boss...
  19. M

    Running a spur to an outbuilding.

    Hi all, I have a bit of a dilemma. A friend wants power in an outbuilding adjacent to his house. I was going to run a fused spur from his kitchen using SWA. He is only looking to run a fridge and a single light. Ideally the CU would be quite close to an external wall but unfortunately it is...
  20. J

    electric shower in outbuilding

    Been asked to make previsions for elec shower in a future outbuild in garden of house I am starting to rewire tomorrow. The house itself will be heated by central heating- all lights led etc just 1x induction hob then a fan oven +MW. so no excessive load in the house. Head is 100a SP in...

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