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mike350
Hi
Im hoping you can help.
We live in a newish house (13months old). With a single detached garage, to which there is a feed (through armoured cable) to a couple of lights and sockets direct (no consumer unit in the garage).
Obviously the house is has a modern unit in it with an RCD etc.
My question:
Should the garage be wired to its own fuse within the consumer unit?
At the moment its on the same fuse as the rest of the house sockets.
We also have a second fuse and this seems oddly for an outside plug - which when we had an extractor replaced under warranty, were inform they obviously made a mistake as this was wired to be the feed to the neighbours garage.
My thinking is they wired correctly a feed to the garage off its own fuse from the main consumer unit protected by the house RCD.
Then realised they wired it to the wrong garage (wrong side of the house). So put a feed off the lounge/main house sockets fuse to power the garage.
Covering up the mistake by then putting the waterproof outdoor socket on the wall.
As the house is still under warranty and I use the garage for proper car stuff (compressors welders etc) i want to get this right.
Help...
(sorry for a long first question!)
Im hoping you can help.
We live in a newish house (13months old). With a single detached garage, to which there is a feed (through armoured cable) to a couple of lights and sockets direct (no consumer unit in the garage).
Obviously the house is has a modern unit in it with an RCD etc.
My question:
Should the garage be wired to its own fuse within the consumer unit?
At the moment its on the same fuse as the rest of the house sockets.
We also have a second fuse and this seems oddly for an outside plug - which when we had an extractor replaced under warranty, were inform they obviously made a mistake as this was wired to be the feed to the neighbours garage.
My thinking is they wired correctly a feed to the garage off its own fuse from the main consumer unit protected by the house RCD.
Then realised they wired it to the wrong garage (wrong side of the house). So put a feed off the lounge/main house sockets fuse to power the garage.
Covering up the mistake by then putting the waterproof outdoor socket on the wall.
As the house is still under warranty and I use the garage for proper car stuff (compressors welders etc) i want to get this right.
Help...
(sorry for a long first question!)