OK, so my shed is built on the back of my outbuilding - ie. it's a temporary wooden structure with three sides that is screwed to said outbuilding (and would probably stay up if the outbuilding came down due to sheer amount of timber....)
If I want to put a socket in the shed, which is actually on the outside wall of the outbuilding (but enclosed by said shed), as an extension of the 13a sfs protected radial circuit that is already in the outbuilding, am I allowed to do this? I assume that as the whole house is on an old fashioned fusewire board (albeit with decent wiring, solid core everywhere, rewired sometime in the last 15 years by the look of things) it would be a good idea to make said socket (which I would consider, strictly speaking, to be an extension of an existing circuit which is suitably protected by a 13a fuse and is just adding one socket to a radial, which seems fine using strict tests of the wording) an RCD protected socket, as it is likely (indeed certain) that garden tools etc. will be run from it - this doesn't seem to be completely compulsory - as it's just another socket outside of part p - but a modicum of common sense says to do it. Is this ok with the current legislation that attempts to prevent me from doing something nice and easy and obvious like this?
Further to this, if I want to take out the 13a fused spur, leaving the 2.5mm existing cable feeding the outbuilding (on a 20 amp fuse methinks), I pretty obviously need to protect the lighting circuit (currently just joined to it) with a fuse, ie. fit a mini fusebox with 16 and 6 amp breakers - I'm guessing that ironically I am not allowed to do this? It really hacks me off that I can't make the installation safer and more up to date overall without spending money, but I guess that one day it'll need to be able to draw more than 13 amp (this wonderous 13 amp fuse already does for a freezer, cold fill washer and tumble dryer somehow and has not blown in the year that I have lived here....) - is there any way that I can do this without involving ££££? Might aswell just leave it as it is really and draw as much power as possible without blowing this fuse and carry on being blinkered like half the uk
If I want to put a socket in the shed, which is actually on the outside wall of the outbuilding (but enclosed by said shed), as an extension of the 13a sfs protected radial circuit that is already in the outbuilding, am I allowed to do this? I assume that as the whole house is on an old fashioned fusewire board (albeit with decent wiring, solid core everywhere, rewired sometime in the last 15 years by the look of things) it would be a good idea to make said socket (which I would consider, strictly speaking, to be an extension of an existing circuit which is suitably protected by a 13a fuse and is just adding one socket to a radial, which seems fine using strict tests of the wording) an RCD protected socket, as it is likely (indeed certain) that garden tools etc. will be run from it - this doesn't seem to be completely compulsory - as it's just another socket outside of part p - but a modicum of common sense says to do it. Is this ok with the current legislation that attempts to prevent me from doing something nice and easy and obvious like this?
Further to this, if I want to take out the 13a fused spur, leaving the 2.5mm existing cable feeding the outbuilding (on a 20 amp fuse methinks), I pretty obviously need to protect the lighting circuit (currently just joined to it) with a fuse, ie. fit a mini fusebox with 16 and 6 amp breakers - I'm guessing that ironically I am not allowed to do this? It really hacks me off that I can't make the installation safer and more up to date overall without spending money, but I guess that one day it'll need to be able to draw more than 13 amp (this wonderous 13 amp fuse already does for a freezer, cold fill washer and tumble dryer somehow and has not blown in the year that I have lived here....) - is there any way that I can do this without involving ££££? Might aswell just leave it as it is really and draw as much power as possible without blowing this fuse and carry on being blinkered like half the uk