Hello!
Ok,I have moved into a lovely cottage a year ago -terraced with a one acre smallholding to the rear. My problem is that I did not realise,but the shed at the bottom of the garden some 30ft away which has a double plug socket and a light switch is run by 2.5mm twin and earth which I have just found is supplied from a normal 13amp plug going through the wall and across the garden.Ok,perhaps I have been having a blonde year! But I always thought it was a washing line!!!
In the shed,I have my chest freezer and tumble drier and a 150W PIR working off of these sockets. To make matters worse.I have found which appears to be more wires coming out of the bottom of the socket in the shed and this then runs to the next shed-which is in the smallholding some 50ft away and this also runs two sockets,one light switch and another 150W PIR...
Ok.wait for it,there is yet another extension going from here another 70 feet into what appears to be a pump house-obviously they had a pump rigged up to the pond-this also has a double socket.
I had wondered why over the last year why my light bulbs in the house keep exploding and fizzing out..is this anything to do with this?
What I would like to ask you guys is..and I don't wish to get ripped off and is why I am asking you all. Do I need a consumer unit putting in each shed? and if so,What precisely do I need,what cable do I need,as I would like to buy all of the things needed,prior to getting a sparky to come and rectify it all..I am not rockefella and am trying to do the green thing here so I need to look after every penny,However,I am really very worried about the electrics as they just do not seem right to me.
Thanks ever so much for you input and please be gentle on me,I am not That electrically minded,I keep animals and chickens and so forth,that is my forte!
Melissa x
Ok,I have moved into a lovely cottage a year ago -terraced with a one acre smallholding to the rear. My problem is that I did not realise,but the shed at the bottom of the garden some 30ft away which has a double plug socket and a light switch is run by 2.5mm twin and earth which I have just found is supplied from a normal 13amp plug going through the wall and across the garden.Ok,perhaps I have been having a blonde year! But I always thought it was a washing line!!!
In the shed,I have my chest freezer and tumble drier and a 150W PIR working off of these sockets. To make matters worse.I have found which appears to be more wires coming out of the bottom of the socket in the shed and this then runs to the next shed-which is in the smallholding some 50ft away and this also runs two sockets,one light switch and another 150W PIR...
Ok.wait for it,there is yet another extension going from here another 70 feet into what appears to be a pump house-obviously they had a pump rigged up to the pond-this also has a double socket.
I had wondered why over the last year why my light bulbs in the house keep exploding and fizzing out..is this anything to do with this?
What I would like to ask you guys is..and I don't wish to get ripped off and is why I am asking you all. Do I need a consumer unit putting in each shed? and if so,What precisely do I need,what cable do I need,as I would like to buy all of the things needed,prior to getting a sparky to come and rectify it all..I am not rockefella and am trying to do the green thing here so I need to look after every penny,However,I am really very worried about the electrics as they just do not seem right to me.
Thanks ever so much for you input and please be gentle on me,I am not That electrically minded,I keep animals and chickens and so forth,that is my forte!
Melissa x