Some friends are setting up a metal workshop inside a shipping container, on site at a commercial building that rents out studios, workshop space etc.
There is a 16mm SWA providing a three phase supply to a board inside the container, I looked and it’s connected inside the main building to a...
Upcoming job to install lighting and sockets in a shipping container.
Supply is PME to a metal clad steel framed building and the container is sited approximately 2m away from the building. Also a heat pump within touching distance of the container.
Container sitting directly on the ground...
I’ve had a shipping container delivered to my building site for use as storage/utility room/worker toilet. One side is insulated as it was previously used for exactly this, and it already has some fairly rudimentary electrics installed.
On the previous site, their “groundworker’s electrical...
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I've been asked to quote for a consumer unit, supply cable and some internal wiring in a shipping container on a private caravan plot (single family residential). The container will be used as a shower block. The mains supply will come from a meterbox installed on a post on the plot...
Hi all, I'm looking for any advice with regards to fixing equipment to the inside of an ISO shipping container. New DB, lights, sockets, switches etc. Just looking for a recommended method of fixing to the container itself. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
I’ve been asked to do a job wiring and fitting out lights and sockets in a single skin shipping container.
How do I fix to the walls?
I don’t want to self tap to the walls and I don’t weld. Any other options?
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A local restaurant has been having problems with intermittent tripping of RCBO supplying a metal shipping container which they use for storing frozen food etc. I've identified the fault which I won't go into as it's not really relevant.
The system is TT, & currently there is 4mm SWA...
hi,im about to embark on installing some power in a steel shipping container,im going to use a Schneider 6 way board rcd main switch.there are 2 air con units going in here but onlt one will be running at any one time,the other is purely as a back up if one fails, both rated at 5kw cooling and...
Looking a bit of advice as to the classification of a steel shipping container that is to be used as a workshop, with fluorescent fittings, a couple of twin sockets and a 16A supply to a lathe.
Would a 20' shipping container be classed as a conducting location with restrictive movement?
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