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Good evening everyone,
So I have a "customer" wanting power supplied to an outside shed they are building in the near future which is going to serve as a sort of outside bar type area.
All wiring will be within the shed and the circuits installed will be a radial power circuit and a lighting circuit. I plan to wire these in singles within plastic conduit and have it surface mounted. Nothing special here.
I plan to use 2 core SWA to supply this, either in 2.5mm² or 4mm² (most likely 4 to future proof it.) which will be buried through the garden, most likely installed within cable ducting.
The supply earthing arrangement is PME, so I'm thinking this shed will need to have its own earth rod installed and the earth from the house terminated and isolated from the consumer unit within the shed.
There is a little snag however, and that is the placement of the consumer unit within the property. It is located inside the downstairs toilet, in the top corner. There is no easy way to route cables to this location as the utility room on the other side of the wall has a fully tiled floor. (I have attached a picture of the back door and utility room and the wall which is on the other side from the consumer unit.)
My plan to tackle that would be to run a length of conduit from one wall, onto the ceiling and then back down onto the wall which backs outside (this is a utility room and the "customer" is fine with this arrangement), have this connected to an external weatherproof box and then via appropriate connectors, glands and the likes link onto the SWA which will be clipped direct to the wall and then run down the side of the house and then off to the shed.
This is my first actual domestic setting job, and I'm just wanting a bit input and thoughts from the experience of people on the forums. Would you suggest anything? Do anything differently? I'm interested to hear!
Thanks for reading!
So I have a "customer" wanting power supplied to an outside shed they are building in the near future which is going to serve as a sort of outside bar type area.
All wiring will be within the shed and the circuits installed will be a radial power circuit and a lighting circuit. I plan to wire these in singles within plastic conduit and have it surface mounted. Nothing special here.
I plan to use 2 core SWA to supply this, either in 2.5mm² or 4mm² (most likely 4 to future proof it.) which will be buried through the garden, most likely installed within cable ducting.
The supply earthing arrangement is PME, so I'm thinking this shed will need to have its own earth rod installed and the earth from the house terminated and isolated from the consumer unit within the shed.
There is a little snag however, and that is the placement of the consumer unit within the property. It is located inside the downstairs toilet, in the top corner. There is no easy way to route cables to this location as the utility room on the other side of the wall has a fully tiled floor. (I have attached a picture of the back door and utility room and the wall which is on the other side from the consumer unit.)
My plan to tackle that would be to run a length of conduit from one wall, onto the ceiling and then back down onto the wall which backs outside (this is a utility room and the "customer" is fine with this arrangement), have this connected to an external weatherproof box and then via appropriate connectors, glands and the likes link onto the SWA which will be clipped direct to the wall and then run down the side of the house and then off to the shed.
This is my first actual domestic setting job, and I'm just wanting a bit input and thoughts from the experience of people on the forums. Would you suggest anything? Do anything differently? I'm interested to hear!
Thanks for reading!
