I plan to wire a new garage/workshop beside an existing dwelling house. The extent of the electrical work within the garage will be lights and sockets. Possibly 1 or 2 convector heaters from sockets.
The distance from the existing house CU to the position of a new CU within the garage is approx. 14M. I plan to use SWA cable as the garage supply cable and it will be buried for most of it's length. I also plan to install a 40A RCD protected CU within the garage with individual MCB circuits.
Can someone please verify the following:
1. What size of SWA would be recommended?
2. The existing house CU is of the old type pull-out fuses - would it be best to replace this at the same time and install a split load CU and take the garage supply from the RCD protected side via MCB (40A)?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
The distance from the existing house CU to the position of a new CU within the garage is approx. 14M. I plan to use SWA cable as the garage supply cable and it will be buried for most of it's length. I also plan to install a 40A RCD protected CU within the garage with individual MCB circuits.
Can someone please verify the following:
1. What size of SWA would be recommended?
2. The existing house CU is of the old type pull-out fuses - would it be best to replace this at the same time and install a split load CU and take the garage supply from the RCD protected side via MCB (40A)?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.