Running power to my shed

[JamesM10]

Hello,
I'm fairly novice at electrics, but know the basics and realise what will happen and how to prevent blowing myself up.

I'm hoping to run power to my shed at the bottom of the garden which will require around 35 - 40 meters of cable. We bought our house 2 years ago and there evidently used to be an electric shower installed because there is a fairly thick cable in the cupboard through the wall left on a joining block. I'm hoping to attach on to that and run a cable out to the shed. This means that It's potentially still live, and it should be directly fused.

Can I:
A) Attach a thinner cable onto that to run out to the shed? If so, what thickness should I make it? (I hope to run LED lights, some basic power tools and maybe a heater for the winter.
B) Run cable up to 40 meters?
C) Run a cable under the bath tub. This is the best / easiest route for the cable. I'll put it inside PVC trunking then probably PVC trunk it along the fence cross sections outside to save me digging anything up.

I guess these answers will all be on the forum if I really looked but I'm just about to pop out now and had hoped that one of you kind people would have an answer for me getting back!

Many thanks in advance.
James

 

[Rpa07]

Agreed - who would I be if I said nothing.
You would defend your family if something was said.

People have different faiths... I have faith in my family, it's all I need..

 

[Spoon]

You would defend your family if something was said.

Very true mate.

 

[JK-Electrical]

Was just thinking earlier that we havent had a electric to shed question on her for a while.... and like clockwork.....
1) you mean they have electricity in Glasgow? I though the national grid stopped at Hadrian's wall!
2) call a local electrician, even if you dig and bury the swa cable yourself it might save money but the cable sizing, loads etc need somebody who knows what they are doing.

1) Not only do we have electricity in Glasgow, we also have legions of non-qualified and under-qualified 'electricians' who would be happy to do the job for pocket-money. If the OP is looking for someone to do the job dirt-cheap, he won't find it difficult to find a cheap 'electrician' in the Glasgow area, that's for sure. Indeed, he will most likely even be able to find a Facebook or Gumtree 'electrician' who will give him a price over the phone without having first visited the site.

2) While I'm content for the customer to save some money by digging trenches to accommodate an SWA themselves, under no circumstances whatsoever do they get to buy or install the cable. As it's my name that will be going on the EIC, I select the cable size and I install it. If customer doesn't agree, I walk and they can find someone else.

 

[JK-Electrical]

Not sure how @SWD joke about a fictitious character can be classed as 'racist' or 'stereotypical'

While I agree that SWD's comments are in no way "racist", or "stereotypical", I do, however, disagree with your assertion that Jesus Christ is a "fictitious character". Even arch-atheist Richard Dawkins accepts that Jesus Christ existed.
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Reference to the Bible is not necessary to find overwhelming evidence that Christ was a real person. To assert that Christ is "fictitious" would be to also assert that the works of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and the Roman historian Carius Cornelius Tacitus are fictitious too.​

 

[MFS Electrical]

OP dig trench, Sparks specify, supply and lay cable, OP back fill trench. Everyone wins that way.

What he said ^^