Some help please

[paulsp]

Hello,

I don’t seem to be able to post to the other boards so I’m posting my question here. Apologies if it’s the wrong place.

I have a garden room about 70ft from my house. I have an outside RCD protected power supply (spurred off a socket in my dining room), I want a power supply in my garden room for a light, a computer and a low wattage heater. Can I just run an extension cable (run inside plastic conduit) to the garden room, plugged into the outside power supply?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

 

[Marvo]

Sorry about the delay Paul, as a new member your first few posts need manual approval by staff before they are visible on the forum.

I assume you're not an electrician so I've relocated this to the DIY forum for you.

 

[telectrix]

Hello,

I don’t seem to be able to post to the other boards so I’m posting my question here. Apologies if it’s the wrong place.

I have a garden room about 70ft from my house. I have an outside RCD protected power supply (spurred off a socket in my dining room), I want a power supply in my garden room for a light, a computer and a low wattage heater. Can I just run an extension cable (run inside plastic conduit) to the garden room, plugged into the outside power supply?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

you can run an extension lead. make sure it's a decent quality and fully unwound. it's fused at 13A so any overload you might put on it will blow the fuse before the cable is overloaded. you may however, get problems with volt drop over that length of extension lead if running more than a light and computer and other low power appliances. .an alternative would be to get a qualified spark to quote on installing a permanent supply.

 

[paulsp]

Sorry about the delay Paul, as a new member your first few posts need manual approval by staff before they are visible on the forum.

I assume you're not an electrician so I've relocated this to the DIY forum for you.

Thanks Marvo

 

[paulsp]

you can run an extension lead. make sure it's a decent quality and fully unwound. it's fused at 13A so any overload you might put on it will blow the fuse before the cable is overloaded. you may however, get problems with volt drop over that length of extension lead if running more than a light and computer and other low power appliances. .an alternative would be to get a qualified spark to quote on installing a permanent supply.

Many thanks for the advice. The extension lead will do for a while but I will get a spark to do something more permanent a bit later on. Thanks again.