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My ex-wife has just had installed a garden shed (well, a £5,000 log cabin, but it’s still a shed). Her unqualified handyman ran a long extension lead (13 amp 3 pin plug, multi-gang socket, 25m ish long non-armoured standard cable) from a wooden garage interior socket, through the garage wall, along her fences (no ducting/trunking, just clipped to the panels), through a shed wall and then the socket screwed to the interior wall. I believe she has an RCD plug at the garage end.
As I see it, this is an installation that comes under Part P (available free) and the wiring regs (do I really need to pay £95 for them) and so has been illegally installed with neither a competent tradesman nor formal approval/certification.
She claims that:
a. It is non of my business, despite one of our kids being under 18, living there and using the shed regularly (to escape his mum, but let’s not go there).
b. Her man says it’s legal because it’s low voltage (well, I suppose 240v, which I know it is as our son runs an electric heater off it, is officially, but that’s not what she thinks, and doesn’t even 12v very low voltage has the same rules?) and not fixed.
Before this gets ugly, can anyone advise me if I’ve got the rules right?
As I see it, this is an installation that comes under Part P (available free) and the wiring regs (do I really need to pay £95 for them) and so has been illegally installed with neither a competent tradesman nor formal approval/certification.
She claims that:
a. It is non of my business, despite one of our kids being under 18, living there and using the shed regularly (to escape his mum, but let’s not go there).
b. Her man says it’s legal because it’s low voltage (well, I suppose 240v, which I know it is as our son runs an electric heater off it, is officially, but that’s not what she thinks, and doesn’t even 12v very low voltage has the same rules?) and not fixed.
Before this gets ugly, can anyone advise me if I’ve got the rules right?