Electric to shed in garden

[sean oc]

Gooooood Afternoon

The house itself is 1940's build, still has the old fuse box etc which will be changed soon as I need a new feed fitting into my garage but my shed in a completely different area. I have a newish built conservatory (which was built by the 'handy man' previously) seems to be to a good standard. It has a 2 gang socket near the door which never gets used, could I run a cable from the back of there into my shed? would it be safe enough to hand a few power tools, diy bend grinder etc and lighting.

I will be using buried armoured cable, as its only about 2-3 metres away. Not sure if a rcd in the shed is needed for a short run and nothing major running in the shed.

Cheers

 

[winston1]

Outside wiring is notifiable so you won't be doing this yourself will you?

When your sparks changes the CU get him to do this as well. No additional RCD required in the shed if the feed is already RCD protected.

 

[sean oc]

Outside wiring is notifiable so you won't be doing this yourself will you?

When your sparks changes the CU get him to do this as well. No additional RCD required in the shed if the feed is already RCD protected.

Wasn't going to no,

To run the feed from the main fuse board is more like a 8m run, would that still be better as it will be rc protected when the spark changes all that? rather than tapping into a socket in the house?

Cheers

 

[winston1]

It will be RCD protected either way but you cannot spur a shed load of sockets and lights from a socket unless you fuse it down with a FCU which then limits your load.

 

[JohnW2]

Outside wiring is notifiable ....

AFAIAA, outside wiring, per se, is only notifiable in Wales but, as you say, if an electrician is going to be changing the CU, (s)he might as well also be asked to do whatever is necessary to put a supply into the shed.

Kind Regards, John