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I think it might be time to call a professional.. this is all getting beyond my limited knowledge I think. As far as I can tell the original cable is not armoured. It is probably 12 or 15 years old. It certainly doesn't have a steel wire sheath but layers and layers of very tough plastics...

Yes is does. To start with I wired the 2 earths (cables 3 and 4) into the same terminal, then tried with each in a separate terminal and then leaving cable 4 un terminated as it used to be terminated to an earth post in the old socket and there isn't a corresponding earth post in the new...

Don't know.. didn't try that test. Can try it tonight when I get home from work though.

Yes I have powered up the SWA via the new JB. The summer house end of the cable is cut, made up and terminated i a corresponding JB affixed to the summer house. The 3 cores have been stripped back and each 1 fixed into an individual connection point in the JB at the summer house, however the...

Yes the other end of the SWA is stripped and terminated in the junction box but nothing is yet wired to the junction box. Sounds like I am going to have to get the sledge hammer out then in order to expose the CU fully. I can change the wiring config easily enough to use black for earth...

Thanks for the quick reply In answer to your questions yes I do, yes I have. didn't say I couldn't take the CU apart, said I didn't want to, as whoever installed it partially covered it when dry lining the garage and to get to it means ripping part of the wall down.

Hi All. Newbie here, so please forgive me it this has been covered elsewhere, but I couldn't find a relevant post. I have an external socket in my garden that is served by armored external cabling. It runs back to a 30amp breaker in a consumer unit in the garage that is fed from a 35 amp...