I have a radial (only on set of 2.5mm cable to the Consumer Unit) which runs to my garage (which is attached to my house. This *may* extend out to the garden (from a junction box in the garage).
I would like to provide power & a permanent light fitting in my loft and this is the most accessible cable to which I can connect.
What I want to do:-
*IF* the cable does extend into the Garden, complete the ring (from the junction box to which the garden extension connects) back to the Consumer Unit.
*OR* find the end socket in the garage and extend the cable from that back to the CU.
Then spur from the (what is now a) ring to provide a spur to a socket in the loft.
Currently the radial is fused with a 20A RCD.
Current load on the radial is a freezer, a fridge freezer, 2 fluorescent lights and a double socket (used for gardening equipment with an extension lead plugged in). In the garden there is just an 18w UV light and a 220w pond pump.
It may be that this is overkill and I need not make the connection back to the CU to make a ring, but just extend from the end of the existing radial.
Questions:-
Is this acceptable?
Is this good practice?
Do I need a qualified electrician to make the CU connection?
Is it safe to have both socket & light on the same spur (or should I run two separate spurs).
Is fusing the Garden junction box at 3A a good idea?
Kind regards.
I would like to provide power & a permanent light fitting in my loft and this is the most accessible cable to which I can connect.
What I want to do:-
*IF* the cable does extend into the Garden, complete the ring (from the junction box to which the garden extension connects) back to the Consumer Unit.
*OR* find the end socket in the garage and extend the cable from that back to the CU.
Then spur from the (what is now a) ring to provide a spur to a socket in the loft.
Currently the radial is fused with a 20A RCD.
Current load on the radial is a freezer, a fridge freezer, 2 fluorescent lights and a double socket (used for gardening equipment with an extension lead plugged in). In the garden there is just an 18w UV light and a 220w pond pump.
It may be that this is overkill and I need not make the connection back to the CU to make a ring, but just extend from the end of the existing radial.
Questions:-
Is this acceptable?
Is this good practice?
Do I need a qualified electrician to make the CU connection?
Is it safe to have both socket & light on the same spur (or should I run two separate spurs).
Is fusing the Garden junction box at 3A a good idea?
Kind regards.