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Thanks for all the advice guys. I'll let the sparky take a look and see what he says. You've all been a good help.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Like I mentioned above there is safe and there are best practises. I'm going to get a price for a seperate 63A feed from the house CU, through the lounge celing cavity and out to the garage CU. Looks like I will be needing 16sqmm so pretty hefty stuff. I...

Oh I know - I'd concluded that by the 5th post. The rest is just out of interest really.

Correct - I think they are only really drawing power for quite a short period. I have spotted some 2kw ones such as these on Ebay.. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180860030031?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Yeh, I think that's the issue. Really need a 20A supply if I'm to run the water heater and a few lights, drills etc. Doesn't seem to be an easy way to limit it to 20A. The reason it needs to be less than 24A is that I can't easily upgrade the 2.5mm which comes from the lounge ring as the...

Oh. Thanks for claryfying. Sounds like I might have to do it the hard and expensive way then and have a sparky run a new feed to the house CU. That means three lots of bedroom carpets and floors to come up and of course the joists all run the wrong way! Bit frustrating when there is already a...

I'm an electronics engineer by trade so have an appreciation of electrics but not up to date on recent standards. I was going to do the work myself and get it signed off by a suitable qualified person. The electrics are not even mentioned in the plans for the construction work. I was under...

Hi all, Just had a new garage built adjoining the house and have a question regarding the location of the electrical consumer unit in relation to the handwash sink. Basically there is an exiting electric feed which comes from the lounge ring main, through the external wall and into the...