New circuit to detached shed/garage in garden.

[sheppertonspark]

If the OP has, as he claimed, passed his 2382-18 then he should know that the sockets need to be protected by a RCD; if he's his Part P, then he should know the job will need notifying first; the source may be an addition to the house circuit but it's a new installation into the detached garage, so he's putting a new installation in a 'Building Sharing a Supply with Dwelling' and a 'Detached Shed, Garage or Greenhouse'

His suggestions of using steel trunking in the ground (where it will rust away) and of using T&E in trunking tells me he shouldn't be doing any electrical work.

"However I checked his ring and there is not much on it." doesn't mean a thing, you have to calculate the circuit load allowing for diversity, after all the next occupier/next year, may have much more attached to it.

He says there's no water services to the garage but does it have ANY extraneous conductive parts?

This, as has been said, should be done properly as a sub main from the house CU to a GCU. It needn't mean lifting 40 slabs as the armoured cable could be clipped on the outside of the house wall/under the eaves etc, to the point where the OP is thinking of routing to the garage; or a 6mm T&E could be run into the roof void, across to that point, then junction to the armoured to come down the wall (e.g. behind a drain pipe?).

Please educate me in how you notify electrical work before it is tested and completed ?? i.e not even started !!

 

[sheppertonspark]

If the OP has, as he claimed, passed his 2382-18 then he should know that the sockets need to be protected by a RCD; if he's his Part P, then he should know the job will need notifying first; the source may be an addition to the house circuit but it's a new installation into the detached garage, so he's putting a new installation in a 'Building Sharing a Supply with Dwelling' and a 'Detached Shed, Garage or Greenhouse'

His suggestions of using steel trunking in the ground (where it will rust away) and of using T&E in trunking tells me he shouldn't be doing any electrical work.

"However I checked his ring and there is not much on it." doesn't mean a thing, you have to calculate the circuit load allowing for diversity, after all the next occupier/next year, may have much more attached to it.

He says there's no water services to the garage but does it have ANY extraneous conductive parts?

This, as has been said, should be done properly as a sub main from the house CU to a GCU. It needn't mean lifting 40 slabs as the armoured cable could be clipped on the outside of the house wall/under the eaves etc, to the point where the OP is thinking of routing to the garage; or a 6mm T&E could be run into the roof void, across to that point, then junction to the armoured to come down the wall (e.g. behind a drain pipe?).

Please educate me in how you notify electrical work before it is tested and completed ?? i.e not even started !!

 

[dksanders]

Please educate me in how you notify electrical work before it is tested and completed ?? i.e not even started !!

The OP in msg 28 said it would be notified, I read that to mean he's getting LABC or a TPC to certify it, if so they'd need to be informed in advance.

 

[Charlie_]

In the same way that building a house works

 

[Charlie_]

The OP in msg 28 said it would be notified, I read that to mean he's getting LABC or a TPC to certify it, if so they'd need to be informed in advance.

He also mentioned it in #1

 

[sheppertonspark]

The OP in msg 28 said it would be notified, I read that to mean he's getting LABC or a TPC to certify it, if so they'd need to be informed in advance.

Thanks.

 

[Toneyz]

Hang on.. are sheds exempt??

From what exactly?

From her indoors probably!