Hi, I'm looking for some advice please, will be engaging electrician to carry out work but would like to be reasonably well informed before having the conversations. I would like to do as much of the work that I can safely accomplish as possible but acknowledge that the design and testing elements are going to be professional jobs as a minimum.
The garage already has power to ceiling lights and a couple of sockets supplied via T&E run from the house to the garage (about 800mm) via plastic conduit just above head height, (I know - not my work). There's no RCD or MCB in the garage at the moment. There are no water or gas pipes to worry about.
In future I want to use the garage for some hobby and craft type work so will want to run some power tools, desk lamps, and laptop. I may install a small TV at some point. There is also a tumble dryer which is used maybe twice a week in the wet/cold weather (so about 50 weeks per annum then).
The garage is about 3 x 7 m in size and I'm thinking of putting in about half a dozen sockets around the walls for convenience sake. The sockets will be wall mounted (about 750mm high) and connected by plastic conduit securely fixed to the walls.
Would a radial circuit using 2.5mm T&E be sufficient/appropriate for this kind of expected use?
If that is the case then would a garage CU with RCD protection and MCBs of 20 AMP for sockets and 6 AMP for the lights be a good match?
Actually getting supply to the garage itself looks a bit of a challenge, digging down between the house and the garage (a narrow and short passage that is bridged by a timber gate) is not my preferred choice given proximity of drain, foundations etc. Going overhead (above 3.2 m will look very odd and ugly). Any ideas/experience of how this can be/has been done please?
Leaving that aside for the moment, I have spare capacity on the house CU (which is mounted on an external facing wall) and would like to know if adding a 32 AMP MCB and then running 4mm SWA along the outside of the house to the garage would be about right? If so, can the cable be clipped to the wall directly or would conduit be required?
Apologies for the long read, any advice very gratefully received. Thanks
The garage already has power to ceiling lights and a couple of sockets supplied via T&E run from the house to the garage (about 800mm) via plastic conduit just above head height, (I know - not my work). There's no RCD or MCB in the garage at the moment. There are no water or gas pipes to worry about.
In future I want to use the garage for some hobby and craft type work so will want to run some power tools, desk lamps, and laptop. I may install a small TV at some point. There is also a tumble dryer which is used maybe twice a week in the wet/cold weather (so about 50 weeks per annum then).
The garage is about 3 x 7 m in size and I'm thinking of putting in about half a dozen sockets around the walls for convenience sake. The sockets will be wall mounted (about 750mm high) and connected by plastic conduit securely fixed to the walls.
Would a radial circuit using 2.5mm T&E be sufficient/appropriate for this kind of expected use?
If that is the case then would a garage CU with RCD protection and MCBs of 20 AMP for sockets and 6 AMP for the lights be a good match?
Actually getting supply to the garage itself looks a bit of a challenge, digging down between the house and the garage (a narrow and short passage that is bridged by a timber gate) is not my preferred choice given proximity of drain, foundations etc. Going overhead (above 3.2 m will look very odd and ugly). Any ideas/experience of how this can be/has been done please?
Leaving that aside for the moment, I have spare capacity on the house CU (which is mounted on an external facing wall) and would like to know if adding a 32 AMP MCB and then running 4mm SWA along the outside of the house to the garage would be about right? If so, can the cable be clipped to the wall directly or would conduit be required?
Apologies for the long read, any advice very gratefully received. Thanks