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OT Shed Wiring Advice
Howlor - 6/9/09 at 08:00 PM

Evening All,

I need to run a cable to 2 sheds down the garden, each will have a light and double socket installed. Does this plan sound correct?

Run a fused spur inside the house then from the fused spur to an outside RCD spur jobbie like they use for garden ponds etc. Then armour cable 2.5mm2 450mm deep to the shed? Then do I need to run it in to anything in each shed or can I wire a socket then a fused spur for each light?

Thanks,
Steve

Blackcab - 6/9/09 at 08:06 PM

Alternatively you could wire your light via a plug and remove the need for a fused spur - just watch the loading back to the mains

02GF74 - 6/9/09 at 08:08 PM

Arthur "two sheds" Jackson?

mookaloid - 6/9/09 at 08:08 PM

Sorry to be picky but I think you need to have a Sparky qulified to Part P to do this because it is considered a higher risk bit of the installation like kitchens and bathrooms.

Cheers

Mark

Howlor - 6/9/09 at 08:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
Arthur "two sheds" Jackson?


Yep just without the flying circus, well at the moment anyway!

JoelP - 6/9/09 at 08:37 PM

RCD fused spur in the house, id run regular twin and moon inside conduit if possible, cheaper than buried SWA. 13A doesnt give you much total power though!

tegwin - 6/9/09 at 09:10 PM

We (cough) sorry, our competant qualified electrician ran a 30A Twin and earth in a plastic conduit from the distribution board in the house to the "shed"....

In the shed we had installed a small consumer unit with a lighting circuit and a socket ring on an RCD.... Proper tidy job...


Incidentally, the last proper "competant" electrician I employed to do a job wired the L and N backwards on a 40A feed to a rather large piece of equipment.... melted the consumer unit... Part P means sweet FA apparently!!!

blakep82 - 6/9/09 at 09:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
We (cough) sorry, our competant qualified electrician ran a 30A Twin and earth in a plastic conduit from the distribution board in the house to the "shed"....

In the shed we had installed a small consumer unit with a lighting circuit and a socket ring on an RCD.... Proper tidy job...


thats what we, sorry, our local frinedly qualified electrician did when me and my dad, sorry, he, rewired the garage for my compressor as it wanted a 30amp circuit on starting, ok, so when its running it doesn't leave any power for anything else, but i've only got the light on and a small radio when i'm using the compressor.
but we left some space for some spare circuit breakers in case we needed to expand, and we did. so bear that in mind

BenB - 6/9/09 at 09:21 PM

Should be part P but lots of old colour wire on Ebay apparantly....