Garden distribution board

[ncpitts]

Hi all,
I would like to pick your collective brains by asking if any of you has installed a DB/consumer unit in a garden or outside which is flat and flush to the ground . This one is by a lake and needs to be flat. It will be sat in grass/lawn
Ideas or solutions please

Ta lots

Nigel

 

[ncpitts]

It's a rediculous idea in the first place, you know that, but you didn't offer up a (equally daft) different solution.

Offer up some ideas yourself for discussion.

So because I don't post an idea you won't, 6000 posts for that. Come on, think , yes it maybe a ridiculous idea but they said that about the Wright brothers. Is this so difficult , it's crazy admittedly but is it impossible ??

 

[Engineer54]

9478 posts and carrier bags are the sum total of wisdom.
The customer is a very intelligent man so if an IP68 box is placed in another and then another (which what he suggested) do you have any scientific reason why not as I'm struggling,I know it's not right but am having difficulty arguing with his logic)

Yep, he sounds like a very intelligent man indeed!! .....NOT!!

So how would you seal the cable entries into the outer and inner boxes and exactly how long do you expect them to be water tight?? Then how are you going to overcome condensation, which is almost a certainty with the box(es) being sunk into the ground??

 

[Silly Sausage]

So because I don't post an idea you won't, 6000 posts for that. Come on, think , yes it maybe a ridiculous idea but they said that about the Wright brothers. Is this so difficult , it's crazy admittedly but is it impossible ??

You're the man on site, I can't see anything from here.
Give us some ideas, it's very easy to post some pictures up!

Don't worry about the urine taking!

 

[ncpitts]

Yep, he sounds like a very intelligent man indeed!! .....NOT!!

So how would you seal the cable entries into the outer and inner boxes and exactly how long do you expect them to be water tight?? Then how are you going to overcome condensation, which is almost a certainty with the box(es) being sunk into the ground??

Excellent! condensation, hasn't crossed my mind, now that's what I was after !
Cheers buddy

 

[davesparks]

Why does the CU need to be in the middle of the garden in the first place? What is preventing it being installed in the nearest building and cables running from there to whatever it is feeding?

 

[trev]

You seem very hung up on post counts mate.
Your options are fairly limited,
1 Use the CU in the property or install a new/secondary one and run SWAs to the various places in the garden
2 Build a substantil structure hidden somewhere in the garden to hide a CU, then run SWas to the various places in the garden
3 Run SWA to feed a new CU in a weatherproof box which will be visible because of it's proximity to the places where power is to be used
See post #28 re the condensation thing.

 

[davesparks]

So because I don't post an idea you won't, 6000 posts for that. Come on, think , yes it maybe a ridiculous idea but they said that about the Wright brothers. Is this so difficult , it's crazy admittedly but is it impossible ??

It is not impossible to physically do, but what you need to consider is whether it should be done or not.
There are a few regulations that you can use to knock this idea into touch!

 

[ncpitts]

Either place a small brick built box into a ha-ha or hide it in some folliage then put your cu inside it......
One of these?
Products | ESR ENTERPRISE

Infact how about a ha-ha with a wall & put a meter cabinet in the wall and a cu in the cabinet.

Ha-ha ? 25 years and not heard of that what is it ?

 

[edexlab]

I had to google it
Its basically a retaining wall
Landscape gardening is definitely not my strong point!

 

[trev]

Ha-ha ? 25 years and not heard of that what is it ?

It's a ditch. Landowners used to have field walls built in them so they'd have an unimpeded view. You'd come across one and be surprised and shout "Haha" the name stuck

 

[Silly Sausage]

I had to google it
Its basically a retaining wall
Landscape gardening is definitely not my strong point!

You're havin' a larf ainchya?

 

[ncpitts]

Why does the CU need to be in the middle of the garden in the first place? What is preventing it being installed in the nearest building and cables running from there to whatever it is feeding?

Nearest building 250m away and he thinks a cabinet would look ugly, and that is my problem

 

[Silly Sausage]

250m, have you done any calcs yet!

 

[not clever]

It is deception in the world of land scaping
Ha-ha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have a customer (i do their eicr) who has a small ha-ha in their garden, with a domestic meter box sunk in the wall, that contains a small memshield cu for the garden and lake (fishing pond) lighting.

 

[Silly Sausage]

They're little buggers them hahas, approach them from the wrong direction with a full pint in your hand and they can catch you out.