Electric supply to Outbuilding

[scholesy]

Hi all, hoping someone can help me with this. I've done a few searches and not found any answers.

I've currently got an outbuilding that is attached to the house. Basically if you go through my back door theirs a concrete roof covering (with no sides) and concrete floor area that is then attached to a small outbuilding.

There are plastic tubes attached to the underside of the roof covering which hosts a light fitting and this runs on into the outbuilding were it hosts a second light fitting on a second switch.

My questions are.
1) is this setup OK/Safe?
2) can I run an electricity supply through these plastic pipes out to the outbuilding rather that having to bury them underground?

thanks for your time
Andy

 

[Steve]

1. yes

2. yes, provided you dont overfill the tube.

 

[Taylortwocities]

scholesy

The outbuilding does not sound as though it is really an integral part of the main house so it needs to be considered an outbuilding.

There's a good article about this here: http://www.iee.org/Publish/WireRegs...matters_electrical_installations_outdoors.pdf

All electrical work outside is notifiable.

Whatever you do, PLEASE make sure that all socket outlets are protected by a 30mA RCD.

TTC

 

[scholesy]

thank you both for the quick replies.

I've seen that article before but would much prefer to put the wires through the existing tubing rather than having to bury them as in the article.

Is it all dependant on whether the outbuilding is considered integral to the house as to whether the cables have to be buried. Are their any definitions of what would comply as integral?

thanks again
Andy

 

[scholesy]

oops , just re-read the article and it seems tubing is OK as long as it meets IEE regulation 412-05-01. I'll have to try and find what this means.
cheers
Scholesy

 

[Taylortwocities]

From your response, you could get the answer by buying one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IEE-Wiring-...9/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-6426328-8138347?ie=UTF8

But that wont give you the full picture. Its probably better that you get one of these: http://www.napitonline.com/fastSearch.asp

TTC