Hi,
I need to get power out to my garage which is not joined to my house and is around 3.5 meters away from the rear of the building.
Laying an underground cable is a no go as it would cost me too much and I don't fancy having my patio dug up/damaged.
A house just up from us has power run to their garage, which is identical to ours, and the power appears to have been run from a rear bedroom then along a catenary wire to the garage. Looking at what people state on the forum the caternary is far too low though to meet regs and the cable looks quite thin (and maybe not the correct one for outdoors use).
I've had one guy round to look at the job, and he was straight out of one of those 'builders from hell' prgrammes
I'm going to get a few more quotes and hopefully find a guy that I have faith in.
Is anyone able to describe exactly what I need ?. I think that it's going to be...
# A 'spur' from the power point in a back bedroom.
# Does an RCD/fuse need to be used before it leaves the bedroom ?.
# Then run to the garage at a minimum height of 3 meters using a catenary wire. I've seen the term 'SWA' used for the cabling, what does SWA stand for ?.
# The cable then runs to a consumer unit (?) in the garage, which then feeds two double power points and two lights.
... please tell me if the above is totaly wrong or what needs to be changed.
Thanks
p.s. if anyone here is near Andover in Hampshire you're more than welcome to pop round and give me a quote.
I need to get power out to my garage which is not joined to my house and is around 3.5 meters away from the rear of the building.
Laying an underground cable is a no go as it would cost me too much and I don't fancy having my patio dug up/damaged.
A house just up from us has power run to their garage, which is identical to ours, and the power appears to have been run from a rear bedroom then along a catenary wire to the garage. Looking at what people state on the forum the caternary is far too low though to meet regs and the cable looks quite thin (and maybe not the correct one for outdoors use).
I've had one guy round to look at the job, and he was straight out of one of those 'builders from hell' prgrammes
I'm going to get a few more quotes and hopefully find a guy that I have faith in.
Is anyone able to describe exactly what I need ?. I think that it's going to be...
# A 'spur' from the power point in a back bedroom.
# Does an RCD/fuse need to be used before it leaves the bedroom ?.
# Then run to the garage at a minimum height of 3 meters using a catenary wire. I've seen the term 'SWA' used for the cabling, what does SWA stand for ?.
# The cable then runs to a consumer unit (?) in the garage, which then feeds two double power points and two lights.
... please tell me if the above is totaly wrong or what needs to be changed.
Thanks
p.s. if anyone here is near Andover in Hampshire you're more than welcome to pop round and give me a quote.