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  1. M

    Supply to garden room with hot tub

    There’s is currently a 3 core 6mm swa installed/40amp breaker, the garden room has its own consumer unit with a 32amp ring circuit and 6amp lighting. The ring circuit has a 1kw heater and a computer/ printer so not a lot of load and the lights are led -total 60w. They now want a 32amp hot tub...
  2. A

    New garden shed supply and garden sockets RCD protection?

    Hi, I need some advice on a garden supply project. An existing small garden shed is being replaced which had a supply to it for a light and two sockets , and a radial socket circuit which continued around the garden. The old installation had a 6mm supply coming into a 63A 30mA RCD as a main...
    • AussieP
    • Thread
    • garden new protection rcd shed sockets supply
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  3. Rockingit

    Garden / Hot Tub / Pond pumps feed

    Just want a quick foggy-Monday-morning-brain check..... Customer wants a mixed feed for general outdoor shenanigans, plan is to run a supply from a KMF in the meter box down some 10mm SWA to an outdoor pillar style distro and then go from there. If divorce it at the pillar box, so the entire...
  4. S

    UK Second empty meter cabinet for a consumer unit to feed several garden circuits. Can a standard metal csu be fitt

    I have a customer who has installed a second empty meter cabinet for a consumer unit to feed several garden circuits. Can a standard metal csu be fitted in here, does it have to be in an ip65 enclosure also or can a ip65 plastic csu be used. I get csu has to be non combustible within a dwelling...
    • sidekick
    • Thread
    • cabinet circuits consumer consumer unit garden metal meter second standard unit
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  5. S

    What is the best cable to run down a garden cavity wall to feed led brick lights on each side other than swa

    With a cavity wall running down between a two drive way each client would like led brick lights. Other than swa, which is not that flexible to work with in such a small space, looking for tips on what other type of cable would be acceptable to use which is also easier to work with and terminate...
  6. K

    Garden room installation

    Hi all, i am planning to install electrics to a garden room, cable length from CU is approx 45meters external,burried. Should i use 3 core SWA and rely on earth from there or treat it as a T-T earth installation and just run 2 core from C/U ? there will be 2KW heater and 4 2G sockets plus led...
  7. G

    Recommendations for surface mounted garden lights

    Hi all, Hope you are all well and all is good! Can anyone recommend a nice looking garden light that can be surface mounted with side or bottom entry, e.g. can be retro fitted with surface mounted cabling? Thanks in advance, Martin
    • Gringoking88
    • Thread
    • garden garden lights lights mounted recommendations surface
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  8. E

    Supply a third fuse board for garden bar

    Hi guys, my brother is building a bar in his garden that is timber framed and wants some power to it. The main board in the house has a pme earth and there a no spare ways in the board. From this board there is a 4mm t+e on a 32amp breaker off the rcd side supplying a board in a little out...
  9. D

    Garden lighting help

    Hi guys been a while, I have a customer asking for quite a large outdoor lighting and power installation It is going to have a kitchen area built which they want 3 x double sockets and 6 spotlights with a switch the kitchen will also have a gas cooker A shed with 2 double sockets and a...
  10. W

    Garden lighting question

    Doing some lights on a back wall that’s being cladded, between the back wall and the garage wall is some stones that I’m going to need to bury cable under to get the cable over to the wall it’s about half a metre across, doing it in armour won’t really work as I would need to go into joint box...
  11. S

    SELV garden spike lights

    Hi, Years ago we had a sparky install some 240v garden lighting but to one of the points in the garden that we wanted lighting in he only installed a buried SWA cable and terminated it in a jb because at the time we needed some other work doing in that area before lighting could go in. Anyway...
  12. marconi

    PUB GARDEN ELECTROCUTION TRIAL

    romford recorder pub electrician - بحث Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=romford+recorder+pub+electrician&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB822GB822&oq=romford+recorder+pub+electrician&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30j69i64.8373j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Pub owner 'drilled through cables' weeks before child...
  13. T

    Wiring for garden office - can I spur off an external socket?

    Hi, I’m not an electrician so seeking advice as to whether my requests were actions correctly or if I need to arrange for additional / remedial work to be done. During the first fix of a renovation I told the electricians working on my project that I planned to put an office / studio in the...
    • thatsimpsongirl
    • Thread
    • external garden garden office off office socket spur wiring
    • Replies: 40
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  14. G

    Swa cable for garden lights

    Hi Could anyone advise... I have a weatherproof exterior box with an RCD socket inside. My garden is gully chipped and stoned. I was hoping to put up 2 post lights and run from a plug in to the RCD socket without having it classed as an installation. My question is, the 2 lights are 60w...
    • Gerry9870
    • Thread
    • cable garden garden lights lights swa
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  15. ghostvaper

    So what is this ???

  16. mattg4321

    Young boy killed in pub garden

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13807785/boy-7-electrocuted-pub-garden-live-charge-exposed/ Not sure if this has been posted before but it just goes to show that eventually someone does get hurt. We’ve all seen loads of jobs where we wonder how it didn’t kill someone. The terminology in the...
  17. S

    UK Running power to garden room

    Hi all. I'm thinking about adding a garden office and will obviously need power. Can power be taken from a normal plug socket somewhere at the rear of the house, or does it need its own circuit from the main consumer unit? If it needs it's own circuit it's a non starter project as I don;t want...
    • Spinfaster
    • Thread
    • garden power power to room running
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  18. 0

    Garden light advice

    Hi all, This is my first post and I am looking for some advice. I currently have an outside light connected to a fused spur in the house. I am planning to add some LED lights (4 watts each x 7), using a WISKA box for each light fitting, running through conduit with compression glands. The...
  19. S

    UK Lighting supply to garden shed/workshop - notifiable?

    Hi all. New member looking for some advice. I would like to add some lighting to my garden shed, possibly one or two LED batten type fixtures. I currently have three garden wall lights, running from the kitchen circuit. Is it possible to just re-route one of these lights via some plastic...
    • STR777
    • Thread
    • garden lighting notifiable supply supply to
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  20. A

    Installing garden floodlights and CCTV

    Hi guys, hope you can all help. I'm moving house soon, and got a few jobs that I need doing. I'm looking at doing them myself (if possible) to save a bit of cash and get done in my own time. I'm not a spark, but have always doing little bits and bobs of my own so am comfortable, however I dont...
    • Ajfaccini
    • Thread
    • cctv garden installing
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Lighting Forum

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