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An electrical supply to decking will be provided by an electrician (from a spare way on the existing shed CU with RCD protection that he connected a year ago) when he comes to do some other work in the house. I'll ask him to terminate in an external double socket attached to a post, or maybe a...

I need the best part of 100m of 10mm2 3 core SWA to bury in a trench between my house and outbuildings. The connections will be done by a professional (who has approved the design and is happy for me to dig the trenches and bury the cable). 2 quick questions: 1) Is it preferable to use...

I'm about to have some electrical work done which will involve me having a trench dug for electricity to the other end of the garden. I might take the opportunity to have water put down there as well (for gardening purposes). I have an outside tap on the house which comes from pipework in the...

I having an electrical supply fitted to 3 outbuildings. I'm naturally inquisitive and have been reading up a lot on various places including here (I've read over 100 pages worth of threads, well, the interesting ones). I'm aware that I don't have the necessary test equipment and that's why I've...

I have someone coming to connect up my sheds, once I've dug the trenches and laid the cable/conduit. Internally I'm just having a couple of sockets and a light fitting in each. Everything will be RCD protected in a small CU in each shed (two circuits). What's best: Metalclad or plastic...

I'm wiring up an outbuilding to the house and have spoken with a sparkie who will do the clever bit (including hookup of SWA and testing). I'll do some digging. The sparkie wasn't bothered about it, but I want to put the cable in conduit, as it saved me having the drive dug up earlier in the...

Is it possible to gland two 10mm2 SWA (3 core) cables directly to a metal garage consumer unit, something like this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/wylex-2-way-garage-unit-63a-30ma-rcd/53927 If not, and I used an adaptable box directly beneath the unit, could I gland it in the box and then take...

I get vibration in the pipe from the boiler to the hot water tank when the boiler is heating the water. As the hot water is timed to come on before we get up, the noise can be somewhat annoying. The noise is a humming vibration, not the clunking of water hammer. The boiler (Alpha) is about 4...

I need to get power to sheds - I've done a lot of searching and I will be getting an electrician round to do some of the work, but is there anything I haven't considered? I have a TN-C-S supply. I have a high integrity consumer box with a spare non-protected circuit I have 3 sheds. I'd like...