New circuit to detached shed/garage in garden.

[Jjc]

Ah, Jjc has got a sense of humour after all. Nice one.

I do like an intelligent conversation on a Saturday night , nothing else to do at my age.

 

[DPG]

I'm listening to Dr. Hook and Waylon Jennings with a whiskey.

 

[Charlie_]

Hang on.. are sheds exempt??

 

[Pete999]

Hang on.. are sheds exempt??

From what exactly?

 

[Jjc]

Ah, Jjc has got a sense of humour after all. Nice one.

I do like an intelligent conversation on a Saturday night , nothing else to do at my age.

Hang on.. are sheds exempt??

 

[Jjc]

I do like an intelligent conversation on a Saturday night , nothing else to do at my age.

 

[Jjc]

I do like an intelligent conversation on a Saturday night , nothing else to do at my age.

I do like an intelligent conversation on a Saturday night , nothing else to do at my age.

The missus has just sent me to the shed .

 

[dksanders]

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?).

 

[Andy78]

Incidentally, why are there so many shed supplies, as opposed hot tub supplies recently?

Coming next week..... hot tubs in sheds ! With them being indoors are they now a bath or a swimming pool ?

 

[Midwest]

We are all obese and can't get into the hot tubs...

Speak for yourself, I'm on a diet.

 

[magnoliafan89]

I just like how only the other year when i was mentioning part p and enquiring if it was a qualification people were quick to slam it and say it wasnt anything....yet here some people are on here defending someone who says one if their qualifications is part p....make your mind up

 

[Toneyz]

I think he may be getting at, if the OP is going to use a CU in the garage then that will have a RCD on it. The armour cable doesn't need it. This avoids discrimination in RCD's.
I could be wrong though..

The house C.U has no RCD protection.

 

[Spoon]

The house C.U has no RCD protection.

Yep mate. The OP corrected that for me in an earlier post. Post #37

 

[Toneyz]

What certificate are you issuing for this work?

NONE.

 

[Toneyz]

Just do it properly and run the cable down to the shed in SWA cable buried at a sufficient depth backfilled correctly with warning tape over to an RCD consumer unit in the shed. Forget this bodged job of PVC cable in buried trunking under slabs. Sounds like one of Pete's boil in the bags.