Surely it isn't allowed for the SWA and shed to be running of this socket is it - surely that's too much to run of a spur in the first place? I thought you could only run one socket on a single spur!
No, it isn't right, but you were going to make it worse - you were going to put a CU on the shed end.
This work was done about a year ago by his builders, so do I need to suggest he gets them back to face the music about a dogey job, or was the fact that they din't use a mini CU and just ran SWA directly into a socket and then a fused spur for the lighting the saving grace and this made it safe?? Seems unlikely to me!
So it seems unlikely to you that an unfused spur supplying a socket and then a fused spur for lights would be safe, but an unfused spur supplying several sockets and lights via a mini CU would be safe?
FFS - you just don't realise how dangerous and incompetent you are, do you, and therefore how stupid you would be to carry on.
In reply to ban-all-sheds...I appreciate your view, but having worked on electrics for a long time I feel competent to do the job,
A long time?
Clearly not long enough to have learnt the design aspects of exporting an earth and extending the equipotential zone.
Clearly not long enough to have learnt the first thing about safe circuit design.
Clearly not long enough to have learnt what TT means.
Clearly not long enough to know what a main earth terminal is.
but have found such contradictory advice with regards to sheds and earhting, etc, that I thought it wise to check. Still would appreciate a definiteive on the earhting too!
No - you
thought that all you needed to find out about was the earthing issue. In reality you need to find out a great deal more - you have no comprehension of how little you know.
The thing is, installing new CUs, outside supplies, submains etc is not a trivial job, and I can assure you that it involves knowing far more than you think it does.
Asking questions here can be a useful part of a learning process, but they are not a substitute for proper structured studying. The key term there is "learning
process" - you cannot learn all the things you need to know just by asking questions here. It isn't structured enough - it won't provide you with a way to progress where each step builds on what you learned before.
You can't carry out a job of this magnitude by asking whatever random questions happen to occur to you. You've already shown that you have some dodgy misconceptions - what if you get something wrong because you have no idea your knowledge is wrong? What if you miss something because you simply have no idea it even exists, and just don't realise you don't know it?
