Armoured cable termination

[morqthana]

The former, given the likelihood that at some point you'll add garden lighting and sockets.

 

[Murdochcat]

When you are down stream of an RCD, having further RCDs or RCBOs is completely pointless

But you’d know this if you had competence

 

[morqthana]

Well you wouldn't have an upstream RCD.

The alternative would be to have a non-RCD MCB in the house supplying this SWA, and then RCBOs in your new CU.

 

[morqthana]

Run it tight next to the guttering?

Not in it

I was thinking that if the building already had PVC pipes on the wall, one more, with the cable inside it, would not look amiss.

 

[333rocky333]

You could gland off into an external box at low level, strip the swa really long and run up to the Dist Board in flexi conduit, maybe with a seperate extra earth wire to allow bonding the armour, within the partition wall, that would leave the gland accessible and no unnecessary joints

 

[morqthana]

That external box might usefully be a socket.

 

[mikehammer69]

That external box might usefully be a socket.

Fit a socket on supply cable ?

That would mean that shed board doesn't isolate socket.

 

[pete01]

You could gland off into an external box at low level, strip the swa really long and run up to the Dist Board in flexi conduit, maybe with a seperate extra earth wire to allow bonding the armour, within the partition wall, that would leave the gland accessible and no unnecessary joints

It would need rcd protection doing it that way.

 

[333rocky333]

It would need rcd protection doing it that way.

yes it does, i believe the op said there was already an rcd at the source

 

[Jupiter01]

yes it does, i believe the op said there was already an rcd at the source

Yes that’s correct.

 

[pete01]

yes it does, i believe the op said there was already an rcd at the source

I had another idea after reading yours, do what you said but install the swa inner inside a galvanised trunking inside the wall? No rcd protection needed then.

 

[morqthana]

Fit a socket on supply cable ?

Why not? We don't know the load on that cable, or the rating of the device at the house, but it could easily be OK.

That would mean that shed board doesn't isolate socket.

Which could potentially be useful, and the device at the house will.

 

[morqthana]

It would need rcd protection doing it that way.

So would a socket, unless an RCD one was used, and a suggestion was to not have an RCD at the house.

 

[mikehammer69]

Which could potentially be useful, and the device at the house will.

It will but the shed board not isolating a socket mounted on shed is not ok

 

[SUNRAY]

It will but the shed board not isolating a socket mounted on shed is not ok

Any particular reason?

We have fairly often had threads where a shed supply is added to an outside socket and 'off the top of my head' I don't recall it being a big no-no before, sure there were discussions about suitability for the situation but in principle a 13A socket on a 32A circuit is okay.