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Hey all, someone i know wants some small power and lighting put in his garage. It's a fair sized garage, roughly 10M x 5M.
He is insistant on it being very basic, ie no heavy machinary to be used and he only wants two ceiling roses put up. I told him they aren't the right type of fitting and i would recommend on installing flouro's to which he sighed too expensive. So i said well two cheap bulkhead fittings at the least, (really a min of 3 lights i envisage will be what i go with).
Anyways he only wants 2 double sockets and a possible 3 light fittings installed.
The supply will come from the house which is let out as 3 individual flats, top, middle and bottom flat. It is a 3 phase supply, each flat being on a seperate phase. The flats must be very basic as they each only have a 45A main fused, two way mini CU with a 30A power and 6A light supply.
The way i propose to feed the garage is to rip one of the 2 way CU's out and install a 4 way CU. Take a SWA cable from there out the wall, cleat around the wall, drill into the garage into a 2 way RCD protected CU. The SWA run is no more than 10M long.
As for wiring to lights and sockets, i'm not a fan of twin and earth clipping when i know the cables going to be exposed so would prefer using plastic conduit and singles.
The bloke wants to keep it as cheap as poss but i'd prefer to do a thorough job.
I was thinking of using either 6mm SWA feed, or would 4mm suffice?
I am interested in hearing how other people would carry out this job, am i being ott?
He is insistant on it being very basic, ie no heavy machinary to be used and he only wants two ceiling roses put up. I told him they aren't the right type of fitting and i would recommend on installing flouro's to which he sighed too expensive. So i said well two cheap bulkhead fittings at the least, (really a min of 3 lights i envisage will be what i go with).
Anyways he only wants 2 double sockets and a possible 3 light fittings installed.
The supply will come from the house which is let out as 3 individual flats, top, middle and bottom flat. It is a 3 phase supply, each flat being on a seperate phase. The flats must be very basic as they each only have a 45A main fused, two way mini CU with a 30A power and 6A light supply.
The way i propose to feed the garage is to rip one of the 2 way CU's out and install a 4 way CU. Take a SWA cable from there out the wall, cleat around the wall, drill into the garage into a 2 way RCD protected CU. The SWA run is no more than 10M long.
As for wiring to lights and sockets, i'm not a fan of twin and earth clipping when i know the cables going to be exposed so would prefer using plastic conduit and singles.
The bloke wants to keep it as cheap as poss but i'd prefer to do a thorough job.
I was thinking of using either 6mm SWA feed, or would 4mm suffice?
I am interested in hearing how other people would carry out this job, am i being ott?
