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Electrics Install to Garage
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There is a gap in the cavity. It is a timber framed house, and the insulation is within the timber frame - I have photos of it being built.
The suspicious thing is just a shadow...
Just reading about electric cars, it appears 32 amp is good enough. Anything higher has to be a 3 phase, and that's starting to get complicated. So a 32 amp connection is all I want to a garage CU.. then I dare say off that would be a socket circuit and a light circuit. Any future charger can then be connected to that.
The suspicious thing is just a shadow...
Just reading about electric cars, it appears 32 amp is good enough. Anything higher has to be a 3 phase, and that's starting to get complicated. So a 32 amp connection is all I want to a garage CU.. then I dare say off that would be a socket circuit and a light circuit. Any future charger can then be connected to that.
Do the other new builds on the site have electricity in their garages? if so I would approach the builder and ask them to finish your property. It may simply be a lack of communication somewhere when the sales office was stripped out and you should have been left with a supply.
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Wow! have I slipped back to the 1950's? My 1964 house was built with a light in the garage, OK there wasn't a socket in the garage originally and only one double in the lounge, but it was over 50 years ago. Does your new house have an indoor toilet? 
It does seem odd. However, it seems that some developers will cut any corner they can find - or, more commonly, offer things that most people would regard as standard requirements as 'optional extras', often for extortionate prices.Wow! have I slipped back to the 1950's? My 1964 house was built with a light in the garage, OK there wasn't a socket in the garage originally and only one double in the lounge, but it was over 50 years ago. Does your new house have an indoor toilet?
Kind Regards, John
Just had a quick look on the Stonebridge Homes website, and the spec for various homes on the current developments that I found stated "detached garage with power supply" Maybe this development is different, but as you say still seems a bit odd.
Isn't there a document from the NHBC that states new houses will have a supply to the garage?
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Just to update you all, electric to the garage was an extra which I didn't pay for. It was ripped out as it wasn't to regs which is fair enough.
However, they are putting it in for free! And it looks like they are going to rip up the drive to do it. woop woop...
However, they are putting it in for free! And it looks like they are going to rip up the drive to do it. woop woop...
I wonder what they would have done had you paid.
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And a further update... it's not done yet and the driveway is now finished.
I am also told now it will only be an extension of the utility/kitchen ring main, and will only be 3 amp - so only a light then. Not what I want (I've told them not to bother)
So I've now asked an electrician in to put me in a beefy 32 amp new supply into the garage. They now need to get to the CU... luckily this electrician can plaster too! I've only agreed to sand/paint. Luckily, the ground at the back is now dug out (by me) to fix the drain pipe which didn't go anywhere - so laying the cable in the ground is the easy part.
I am also told now it will only be an extension of the utility/kitchen ring main, and will only be 3 amp - so only a light then. Not what I want (I've told them not to bother)
So I've now asked an electrician in to put me in a beefy 32 amp new supply into the garage. They now need to get to the CU... luckily this electrician can plaster too! I've only agreed to sand/paint. Luckily, the ground at the back is now dug out (by me) to fix the drain pipe which didn't go anywhere - so laying the cable in the ground is the easy part.
Nice to see they have such a customer-focused caring attitude.
It would be difficult to supply the garage with a circuit that could only be used for 3A.
It would - in fact, probably impossible given minimum permitted cable sizes (unless the garage were 'miles' from the house and one was concerned about voltage drop!).
I presume what is meant is that the garage would be supplied via an FCU with a 3A fuse, spurred from the utility/kitchen circuit. If the cable was at least 1.5mm² (or flex!), then the OP could simply put a 13A fuse in the FCU and have at least 13A available in the garage. If it's 1mm² T+E, I suppose he theoretically could not do that compliantly (due to 'the wretched Table', not any electrical reason!).
Kind Regards, John
He's not obliged to follow what that table says
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