Main consumer unit in wooden outbuilding

[pncomms]

Looking for a bit of advice here. I am replacing the CU which is currently in a shower room. Now, don't gasp too hard, it's not as bad as it sounds. The shower is in a totally enclosed cubicle with a good extractor, and the room never gets steamy or has condensation. The existing CU is in a cupboard which is diagonally 1.6M from the outside of the cubicle, ie, outside zone 2. The door does not currently have a lock on but easily could, or some other means of securing it but allowing emergency access. There is no other location in the room or adjacent rooms to site it. However, on the other side of the wall is a wooden workshop (yeah OK a shed), that the house wall forms one wall of. It is a substantial, dry, permanent construction. I am thinking it might be better to put the CU in there? Any thoughts?? There is no excessive dust etc created in it by the way. Seems like a better idea to me. I am aware I will need to notify this.

 

[MDJ]

Off track slightly....but are you allowed to clip cables directly onto wood surfaces nowadays? Or must cables now be enclosed in conduit / trunking etc.

what if it is a 25mm2 3 core armoured cable, will the manufacturers have to make a 3" conduit so the armoured can be pulled through it lol

 

[ipf]

If you're determined to move this CU, why don't you stick it in there?
You could possibly make the door airtight as well!

And fasten a seal on it....

 

[ipf]

what if it is a 25mm2 3 core armoured cable, will the manufacturers have to make a 3" conduit so the armoured can be pulled through it lol

Might have a chance with 4'' soil pipe..

 

[driverman]

Well I wouldn't tube around my loft space to stick a light in it would you?

Yep.. knew as soon as I sent that....someone would say loft spaces etc. What I meant was, in a wooden building / shed etc.
Yes I've used buckle clips and tower clips directly onto wood. Instructor informed us whilst doing 2395 that not allowed no longer.

 

[MDJ]

And fasten a seal on it....

what would that achieve

 

[pncomms]

I once went out with a girl from Derby, she was a dirty so and so, lol, up yours haha

Ah there all slappers in Derby mate, and the teams crap as well. I'm from Notts. Do you think I'm getting the hang of this?? Still not sure about this fkin CU though

 

[Silly Sausage]

what if it is a 25mm2 3 core armoured cable, will the manufacturers have to make a 3" conduit so the armoured can be pulled through it lol

You're just being silly now, everybody knows you can safely clip a SWA to a wooden garden fence.

 

[R G]

I have just seen all this mumbo jumbo , makes me wonder what the public would make of it.. sheds , clips all sorts

 

[MDJ]

Ah there all slappers in Derby mate, and the teams crap as well. I'm from Notts. Do you think I'm getting the hang of this?? Still not sure about this fkin CU though

is the shed one of these

 

[pncomms]

i'm beginning to think I have formed too much of a bond with this shed. It does contain my barrels of homebrew though, maybe the CU would be in danger if one exploded?

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is the shed one of these

Don't be stupid its not that professional

 

[ipf]

what would that achieve

Expected that from a face puller.

like to see a meter man carrying a packet of those around. :90:

 

[pncomms]

is the shed one of these

I have a feeling I am going to have to take a photo of this shed sooner or later.

 

[telectrix]

Oh I got to say as well, I'm not sure that a man who likes creamflow should be taken seriously anyway, *****g awful stuff.

just read most of this thread. it's obvious that you're a kosher bloke from the above post. sod the electrics side, any man who hates cumflow has got to have a half decent brain.

 

[telectrix]

Off track slightly....but are you allowed to clip cables directly onto wood surfaces nowadays? Or must cables now be enclosed in conduit / trunking etc.

clips? you cannot be serious. in a loft it's going to be buried under a foot of itchy-poo anyway. why waste clips where nobody can see?

 

[MDJ]

just read most of this thread. it's obvious that you're a kosher bloke from the above post. sod the electrics side, any man who hates cumflow has got to have a half decent brain.

Calm down Tel, these bloody old gangsters