Hi all,
Currently living in a rented house and need to get some electric down to the 2 sheds in the garden. Currently using a damn long extension lead on an rcd plug. The landlord is going to pay for his electrician to connect everything up, but i said i would get the cable, sockets, lights etc and route everything.
The load will be what i would call fairly light.......... ceiling rose in each shed, couple of double sockets with one running a chest freezer, electric drumkit, cd player and maybe a tv. May take a kettle down there, but more likely to have a beer fridge! Am i right in thinking 1.5mm 22a will be enough or should i bump it up?
Few questions if i may........
In the kitchen there is an existing loose cable which goes into a junction box, which is still live and was used for the old under sink boiler before we had central heating installed. The electrician thinks this will be fine to tap off as it goes directly back to the CU to a 16a mcb. Whats the best junction box to use to go from armoured to the twin & earth? Junction will be indoors. Will one of the malleable iron through boxes be ok?
As for the armoured, i'm thinking of just using 2 core and putting a new earth spike next to the shed. Good idea / bad idea? It's probably about 60ft from the kitchen to the shed. Thinking stainless steel spike as i have a load of 1" round here, probably whack it in the ground a metre or so.
In shed 1 will be a small IP65 CU. If i get one with an RCD, will this trip if there are problems in the sheds, or will it still trip out the one in the house?
Will be insulating and boarding out the sheds, is there a preferred way to route the twin & earth for the sockets and lights? Up the walls, across the walls, doesn't matter?
Is it ok to use the twin and earth between the 2 sheds? They're about a metre apart so was going to run a bit of conduit between the two and put the cables through that, or would it be better to use the armoured for that too? Just thinking the t&e route would be easier!
Hope i haven't bored you all too much, but any pointers gladly revceived!
Currently living in a rented house and need to get some electric down to the 2 sheds in the garden. Currently using a damn long extension lead on an rcd plug. The landlord is going to pay for his electrician to connect everything up, but i said i would get the cable, sockets, lights etc and route everything.
The load will be what i would call fairly light.......... ceiling rose in each shed, couple of double sockets with one running a chest freezer, electric drumkit, cd player and maybe a tv. May take a kettle down there, but more likely to have a beer fridge! Am i right in thinking 1.5mm 22a will be enough or should i bump it up?
Few questions if i may........
In the kitchen there is an existing loose cable which goes into a junction box, which is still live and was used for the old under sink boiler before we had central heating installed. The electrician thinks this will be fine to tap off as it goes directly back to the CU to a 16a mcb. Whats the best junction box to use to go from armoured to the twin & earth? Junction will be indoors. Will one of the malleable iron through boxes be ok?
As for the armoured, i'm thinking of just using 2 core and putting a new earth spike next to the shed. Good idea / bad idea? It's probably about 60ft from the kitchen to the shed. Thinking stainless steel spike as i have a load of 1" round here, probably whack it in the ground a metre or so.
In shed 1 will be a small IP65 CU. If i get one with an RCD, will this trip if there are problems in the sheds, or will it still trip out the one in the house?
Will be insulating and boarding out the sheds, is there a preferred way to route the twin & earth for the sockets and lights? Up the walls, across the walls, doesn't matter?
Is it ok to use the twin and earth between the 2 sheds? They're about a metre apart so was going to run a bit of conduit between the two and put the cables through that, or would it be better to use the armoured for that too? Just thinking the t&e route would be easier!
Hope i haven't bored you all too much, but any pointers gladly revceived!