sorry, didnt see how to contact you privately, i want to say thanks for advice on previous thread, every point is valid. but wondering if i can pick your brain once more..
for my garage/workshop supply. i want to have it certified as it will all be new and the workshop is quite substantial.
my plan is to do the grunt bits myself and have a local electrician come and connect up and test and certify. i spoke to one on the phone and he was ok with it but of course for him to come out and tell me all the details their is a charge. so we came to an agreement that i would dig a trench for cable from house to workshop, i would route into the house and up the workshop wall and into the top left corner, i will mount all workshop grade conduit and fix socket boxes to the wall,
he told me the items i would need to aquire and he will basically come out see it all exposed (not connected) and connect all up.
just want to confirm with you what he said is good seeing as the last guy i had obviously was not.
ok so points to note:
1 - he said to purchase a 32A rcd breaker for the workshop. (he will be coming off a breaker in the house too, he said this way cable is protected and workshop is protected)
2 - for the items/amount of sockets etc i will be having and lights he said 10mm armoured cable should be ok.
- 4 x strip lights
- 4 x double sockets
- main equipments are mounted drill, bench grinder, mig welder (they are highest consumption items all of which are fine running from ordinary house sockets)
3 - when i asked about internal cabling, he just said the same stuff as used for household sockets, and that the supplier would tell me which is best ???
4 - one thing i forgot to ask was depth of trench ?? it is going to be a 15m length of cable required, all to run under grass.
thanks for any advice again.
ps: doing this is saving me a hell of alot of money.
for my garage/workshop supply. i want to have it certified as it will all be new and the workshop is quite substantial.
my plan is to do the grunt bits myself and have a local electrician come and connect up and test and certify. i spoke to one on the phone and he was ok with it but of course for him to come out and tell me all the details their is a charge. so we came to an agreement that i would dig a trench for cable from house to workshop, i would route into the house and up the workshop wall and into the top left corner, i will mount all workshop grade conduit and fix socket boxes to the wall,
he told me the items i would need to aquire and he will basically come out see it all exposed (not connected) and connect all up.
just want to confirm with you what he said is good seeing as the last guy i had obviously was not.
ok so points to note:
1 - he said to purchase a 32A rcd breaker for the workshop. (he will be coming off a breaker in the house too, he said this way cable is protected and workshop is protected)
2 - for the items/amount of sockets etc i will be having and lights he said 10mm armoured cable should be ok.
- 4 x strip lights
- 4 x double sockets
- main equipments are mounted drill, bench grinder, mig welder (they are highest consumption items all of which are fine running from ordinary house sockets)
3 - when i asked about internal cabling, he just said the same stuff as used for household sockets, and that the supplier would tell me which is best ???
4 - one thing i forgot to ask was depth of trench ?? it is going to be a 15m length of cable required, all to run under grass.
thanks for any advice again.
ps: doing this is saving me a hell of alot of money.
