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aaronjb
I've been reading past threads and so on here to try and figure out the best way to achieve this, and from what I can gather that's:
1) Install conduit now complete with draw rope
2) Have an Electrician who is a member of the 'competent persons' scheme install the SWA, garage CU and so on.. essentially making this no longer a DIY project at all.
Otherwise I have to notify building control and so on myself, whereas having an electrician do it, they're notified after the fact by him?
So if that's the case, two questions:
1) My house is entirely concrete floored, so taking the cable down through floorboards and out under the footings (as in the document linked on the Wiki) is nigh on impossible without digging out a large area of the houses concrete pad. Can the SWA exit the building through the wall and/or can the SWA rise up the external wall and terminate in an external weatherproof junction box? (Provided it is suitably glanded and earthed) Obviously terminating the SWA externally is going to be cheaper - on the order of hundreds or thousands of pounds, I imagine, given the floor digging required.
2) Should the conduit for the garage emerge inside or outside the planned garage wall? I presume 'inside'..
3) Oh, there'll also be an electric supply to a pit in the garage - I'm presuming I should also lay conduit from the same area as the other (i.e. under wherever the CU will be) over to the hole the pit will be going in, complete with warning tape and so on - this conduit will be under the concrete slab in entirety..
Am I right, wrong, or miles away?
1) Install conduit now complete with draw rope
2) Have an Electrician who is a member of the 'competent persons' scheme install the SWA, garage CU and so on.. essentially making this no longer a DIY project at all.
Otherwise I have to notify building control and so on myself, whereas having an electrician do it, they're notified after the fact by him?
So if that's the case, two questions:
1) My house is entirely concrete floored, so taking the cable down through floorboards and out under the footings (as in the document linked on the Wiki) is nigh on impossible without digging out a large area of the houses concrete pad. Can the SWA exit the building through the wall and/or can the SWA rise up the external wall and terminate in an external weatherproof junction box? (Provided it is suitably glanded and earthed) Obviously terminating the SWA externally is going to be cheaper - on the order of hundreds or thousands of pounds, I imagine, given the floor digging required.
2) Should the conduit for the garage emerge inside or outside the planned garage wall? I presume 'inside'..
3) Oh, there'll also be an electric supply to a pit in the garage - I'm presuming I should also lay conduit from the same area as the other (i.e. under wherever the CU will be) over to the hole the pit will be going in, complete with warning tape and so on - this conduit will be under the concrete slab in entirety..
Am I right, wrong, or miles away?