Morning all,
I recently moved house and found that the external garage had power, supplied by a cable coming out of the loft.
Upon checking it seems that the cable leading to the garage is part of the upstairs socket ring, extended out to the garage using what appears to be unarmoured cable buried a few inches into a flower bed. In the garage it is a junction box with separate cables for lights and sockets. Am I correct in thinking it is unacceptable to extend in interior circuit into outbuildings? Garage is approx 6 m from house.
As such, I want a new armoured cable leading back to the consumer unit, with a garage consumer unit to supply the garage. I plan on getting an electrician in to do this because: part P, I know my limits, I intend to sell the house in the not too distant future.
The only thing I'm concerned about is getting the new circuit added to my consumer unit. The house is from the 1970's, I don't know how old the consumer unit is. If I ask an electrician to add a circuit are they going to insist on new CU/house wiring/other enormous expense? I've added photos of my current CU if it helps ID/date it:
Cheers
Donny
I recently moved house and found that the external garage had power, supplied by a cable coming out of the loft.
Upon checking it seems that the cable leading to the garage is part of the upstairs socket ring, extended out to the garage using what appears to be unarmoured cable buried a few inches into a flower bed. In the garage it is a junction box with separate cables for lights and sockets. Am I correct in thinking it is unacceptable to extend in interior circuit into outbuildings? Garage is approx 6 m from house.
As such, I want a new armoured cable leading back to the consumer unit, with a garage consumer unit to supply the garage. I plan on getting an electrician in to do this because: part P, I know my limits, I intend to sell the house in the not too distant future.
The only thing I'm concerned about is getting the new circuit added to my consumer unit. The house is from the 1970's, I don't know how old the consumer unit is. If I ask an electrician to add a circuit are they going to insist on new CU/house wiring/other enormous expense? I've added photos of my current CU if it helps ID/date it:
Cheers
Donny
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