Hi,
I’m planning on putting in the electrics in my new garage and wanted to see if anyone had any advice/warnings. I have done quite a lot of home electrics in the past but have never done any outside electrics before or anything involving SWA cable. The garage is 25m from the house and will require 4 x double sockets and 4 x strip lights.
I plan to install a 2 way consumer unit in the garage, comprising 40A 30mA RCD, 1 x 6A and 1 x 16A Type B MCB. I intend to run 4.0mm SWA from the garage to eventually connect to a spare slot in the house consumer unit. As the house consumer unit is at the front of the house and the garage at the end of the garden, rather than run SWA all the way to the house consumer unit is it possible to run Twin +E from the house consumer unit to under the floor in a rear bedroom. Then the twin + E will be connected to the incoming SWA using a suitable adaptor (I’m assuming these are available). In the house consumer unit there is an unused RCBO, formerly used for an electric shower, would it be acceptable to connect to this?
Would 2.5mm SWA be ok? Also do I need to have a separate earth spike for the garage?
Thanks very much for your help.
I’m planning on putting in the electrics in my new garage and wanted to see if anyone had any advice/warnings. I have done quite a lot of home electrics in the past but have never done any outside electrics before or anything involving SWA cable. The garage is 25m from the house and will require 4 x double sockets and 4 x strip lights.
I plan to install a 2 way consumer unit in the garage, comprising 40A 30mA RCD, 1 x 6A and 1 x 16A Type B MCB. I intend to run 4.0mm SWA from the garage to eventually connect to a spare slot in the house consumer unit. As the house consumer unit is at the front of the house and the garage at the end of the garden, rather than run SWA all the way to the house consumer unit is it possible to run Twin +E from the house consumer unit to under the floor in a rear bedroom. Then the twin + E will be connected to the incoming SWA using a suitable adaptor (I’m assuming these are available). In the house consumer unit there is an unused RCBO, formerly used for an electric shower, would it be acceptable to connect to this?
Would 2.5mm SWA be ok? Also do I need to have a separate earth spike for the garage?
Thanks very much for your help.