Conduit in Summer House - Aesthetics Photos Required

[rolyberkin]

Has anyone got any photos of installs they have done in non insulated or non plasterboard finished garden log cabins summer houses?

I am purely interested in the aesthetics I am after examples in white plastic, black plastic, galv conduit and MI if anyone can help? I am about to wire a summer house for a friend (under the supervision of a fully qualified electrician I hasten to add!) and she is unsure as to what it would look like, foolishly and as she is a close friend I have told her there are different options!?

The install will hence all be surface mount.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help!

 

[shanky887614]

Can't find in the on site guide and still waiting for my full regs, is there any change to using external sheath as CPC on MI cable, as an apprentice in 1985 this was okay, has anything changed in the meantime!

it should be fine, i would use a pot with an earth leg though

 

[Diddy]

+1 For bare micc. Done with care and attention it will look fantastic.

 

[davesparks]

I am all in favour of micc, but the cost will almost certainly be too much. A drum of 2l1.5 is likely to be around £500/600!

 

[rolyberkin]

+1 For bare micc. Done with care and attention it will look fantastic.

That's me excluded then;-) any excuse to buy new tools!

 

[shanky887614]

I am all in favour of micc, but the cost will almost certainly be too much. A drum of 2l1.5 is likely to be around £500/600!

start bidding on ebay and you will pay a lot less.

there are a few on ebay atm.

there is a guy selling about 10 full drums so i would send them a message about getting a drum etc

 

[RyanCheetham]

I have no pics but in the past I have used pine strips and using a router I rebated most of the material leaving a U shaped wooden cable cover then just clip cables direct and cover over with the channel and finish nailer it to the building. Took a while but did make a decent job.

 

[gnselectricals]

start bidding on ebay and you will pay a lot less.

there are a few on ebay atm.

there is a guy selling about 10 full drums so i would send them a message about getting a drum etc

Alright mate you got a link for this on eBay ? Cheers

 

[Welchyboy1]

I fitted out a log cabin in the middle of a garden recently, so couldnt use my usual method of external pvc tube on the hidden walls

i used wood effect d-line trunking from TLC with matching surface boxes, it looked really good, couldnt really notice it, just ran it all the way round at low level and up in one corner for lighting

its self adhesive but i would also screw it as its gets hot in the summertime and the trunking can peel off if just stuck on

Whatever you do just dont use white trunking it looks awful

 

[shanky887614]

Alright mate you got a link for this on eBay ? Cheers

i just searched for 2Ll1.5 on ebay

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251929544962?nav=SEARCH

 

[Guest77]

i'd be inclined to cable it on the outside in black pvc conduit and tube through the logs directly into fittings.

Exactly what I have done in the past Tel.

 

[ruston]

No problems I do see your point re studding but that is normally internal and 100mm minimum, my first plan was going to put it all external in plastic and drill through the walls but the person who will be supervising me was not happy due to possible water ingress and rodents? I can see that it is permissible to drill into the logs and at construction stage may have been an option, I just think that giving a bit of room for contraction and expansion by drilling at 20mm the centre point would only be 25mm deep from either side, although in a safe zone being an external wall where someone may not have access to the building to check said zones prior to drilling, I think I would be prefer it to be surface mounted and have some form of physical protection?

Thanks , but to be honest i thought a ' log 'would be a lot greater than 70 mm .
If the person will permit me I will post a pic of the last solid wall summer house I wired . I would have thought 70 mm wall was shy of would what an external wall would be . That is more like a shed wall . Good luck any way .:wink5::wink5:

 

[CockneyReject]

I am all in favour of micc, but the cost will almost certainly be too much. A drum of 2l1.5 is likely to be around £500/600!

last drum of 2L1.5 I got was 300 quid but that was 8 month or so ago