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What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
Yes sensible advice service
Electrical question , power to shed
- Thread starter cyberknight
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the snail
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham
Have a read of this
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Taking_electricity_outside
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Taking_electricity_outside
- Location
- Egham
I'd use a bit of armoured, and run it off a spur from the existing shed socket circuit.
Mind you, my garage is still fed from a bit of 2.5 T&E strung on a catenary wire... it's on the list of things to do, and whilst not ideal is compliant (ish).
Mind you, my garage is still fed from a bit of 2.5 T&E strung on a catenary wire... it's on the list of things to do, and whilst not ideal is compliant (ish).
Buried cable does not need to be SWA, it can be standard T&E as long as it I'm mechanically protected(I've in a pipe or similar).
What the OP proposes is not Part P as it is only an extension lead and not a fixed installation.
Therefore, the OP just needs to consider the risk of hitting the buried hose pipe and going through the cable, and perhaps take into account any grouping factors.
What the OP proposes is not Part P as it is only an extension lead and not a fixed installation.
Therefore, the OP just needs to consider the risk of hitting the buried hose pipe and going through the cable, and perhaps take into account any grouping factors.
fatblokish
Guru
- Location
- In bath
At home I've had a buried cable in hosepipe arrangement to supply the shed for over 15 years without any problems.
However at work last year I went through an armoured cable with a mattock.
Just saying.
However at work last year I went through an armoured cable with a mattock.
Just saying.
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
What you need is a bit of flex, anything you've got laying around will do, bellwire if theres nothing else. Stick a plug on either end of it and run it into the shed. Double socket in the shed, one plug into that, one plug into a socket in the house. Turn switches on at both ends are you're sorted, using half of the double in shed for power.
Please don't actually do this (though it will work). I've read of an electrician actually finding this at one of his relatives house.
Please don't actually do this (though it will work). I've read of an electrician actually finding this at one of his relatives house.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
If it's just for a light use 12v LEDs. Put an isolating transformer in your main shed so your buried cable is not carrying a lethal voltage.
IANAE
IANAE
very dodgy and illegal.
you used to be able to get this plug and play system:
http://www.primrose.co.uk/armoured-switched-prewired-cable-system-p-2321.html
buy i don't know if it is still available or complies with current (ha!) regs
Why is it illegal?
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
My hosepipe feed is not even buried!
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
Dodgy - yes. Illegal - no.
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
I'd love to have power in our garage but as it's a shared block a little distance from the house and because a neighbour has taken out part of the roof of his and replaced it with corrugated plastic so he can have daylight the rest of us have leaky roofs. It's a rented house and he thinks he owns the block of garages so we don't feel we can do anything.
RichardB
Slightly retro
- Location
- West Wales
If you're going to bury it, do a proper job - trench two foot deep, and cap the cable with roof slates before backfilling. And no, that doesn't conform with any regs, but it works and it is safe. I am wondering about getting power to my new shed. It's only a metre from the garage (which has power) but in between is a walkway. I was thinking of stretching a thick wire between the two buildings, above head height, and attaching the power cable to that (it's how the phone line gets to the house). Is that sensible?
Installing the cable at height is permissible and in line with the regs.
RichardB
Slightly retro
- Location
- West Wales
Good to know, thank you.
