Hi,
Further to a previous thread on the subject I’m planning on putting in the electrics in my new garage and wanted to see if anyone had any advice/warnings before I send the form off to the council. I have done quite a lot of home electrics in the past but have never done any outside electrics before or anything involving SWA cable. The garage is 25m from the house and will require 4 x double sockets and 4 x strip lights.
I plan to install a 2 way consumer unit in the garage, comprising 40A 30mA RCD, 1 x 6A and 1 x 16A Type B MCB. I intend to run 6.0mm SWA from the garage to eventually connect to a spare MCB slot in the house consumer unit. As the house consumer unit is at the front of the house and the garage at the end of the garden, rather than run SWA all the way to the house consumer unit I’ll run 6mm Twin +E from the house consumer unit to under the floor in a rear bedroom ( maximum run 5 metres). Then the twin + E will be connected to the incoming SWA using a chocolate block inside a suitable metal box.
Any advice on what size MCB I should use in the house consumer unit? Also other consumer units seem to have the non RCD side clearly marked, but my MK sentry doesn’t, is there any way to tell which is the non RCD side?
Thanks very much for your help.
Further to a previous thread on the subject I’m planning on putting in the electrics in my new garage and wanted to see if anyone had any advice/warnings before I send the form off to the council. I have done quite a lot of home electrics in the past but have never done any outside electrics before or anything involving SWA cable. The garage is 25m from the house and will require 4 x double sockets and 4 x strip lights.
I plan to install a 2 way consumer unit in the garage, comprising 40A 30mA RCD, 1 x 6A and 1 x 16A Type B MCB. I intend to run 6.0mm SWA from the garage to eventually connect to a spare MCB slot in the house consumer unit. As the house consumer unit is at the front of the house and the garage at the end of the garden, rather than run SWA all the way to the house consumer unit I’ll run 6mm Twin +E from the house consumer unit to under the floor in a rear bedroom ( maximum run 5 metres). Then the twin + E will be connected to the incoming SWA using a chocolate block inside a suitable metal box.
Any advice on what size MCB I should use in the house consumer unit? Also other consumer units seem to have the non RCD side clearly marked, but my MK sentry doesn’t, is there any way to tell which is the non RCD side?
Thanks very much for your help.