I have 1 external light in my garden and would like to install 5 more, what’s steps would I need to take to do this? Could I spur off my existing light? Would I need junction boxes for each light?
Hello all,
I’m pretty uninitiated in electrics and wonder if this garden installation is possible and what I might need to achieve it. I have a garden room which I am finishing and having wiring put in. I will have 240v external sockets and bare cable that can be wired directly to a transformer...
got a job coming up, need to control 4 lots of lights on a garden, will have 4 zones aroind koi pond and decking etc...
First thought was a wise systemWise system
but customer wants an app for it on his phone. Anybody got suggestions for a decent wireless control system that has a phone app...
I have some questions about garden lighting controllers for electricians who install garden lighting. If you don’t use controllers, feel free to tell me why not!
Here are the questions:
Which controllers do you recommend/do your customers ask for when installing garden lighting?
Why do you...
Good evening and hope all is well. Ive been looking into a garden lighting job. Customer wants four channels of lights, different colours/dimmable ect ect so was thinking a wise box would be ideal. Im not sure if to have the lights at 12/24v obviously with a transformer at each channel, or 230v...
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if I could get a little advice on a small project I plan to carry out over the next few weeks.
I plan to install 10x 6w GU10 LED bulbs (fitted inside some suitable outdoor light boxes) on each fence post along a 30 metre garden fence, the lights will be powered...
Hi all,
After some advise.
I have recently built a retaining wall with steps out of concrete blocks laid flat. Around 700mm tall
The wall will hold back around 500mm or so of ground, leaving a nice 180mm ish of wall above ground level.
My plan is to install lights ( brick lights I assume )...
So I have been asked to install 2 garden post lights in and I was going to use a 3 amp fcu from the ring using 2.5mm then into a juntionbox with 1.5mm swa burried more than 600mm deep and concrete the posts in the ground. Just wondering if this was the correct way before I start ?
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I was just inquiring about the correct swa cable size for a office around 40 meter run, 15meters of which will be buried, this is to power 9 double sockets, 24 led spot lights and 3 dimplex heaters.
Would it be possible to install a 16mm swa from a new sub board in the house ran from a...
Hi,
I am looking to get temporary electrics into my garden shed.
My wife will be using it for her part time dress making.
In the shed, I will be running a strip light, 3 or 4 sockets for a sewing machine, an iron, table lamp, phone charger etc.
Can I just connect 4 way extension lead from...
Opinions appreciated on this one.
Garden in approximately a square, 20 metres pr side
The board is under the stairs and I'll run a 6aRCD protected feed behind the units to the rear wall and into the garden; everything outside in Schneider boxes filled with Ray Tech Gel
Cable will be either Hi...
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We have a well at the top of the Garden approximately 80 metres away. I would like to run some cabling underground approximately 6 metres and then along the bottom of my fence/wall the rest of the distance. At the well I am powering a 700W water pump which will be connected to an external...
Was planning on finally putting some ground spot lights around the garden this year just looking for advise on best methods of cabling, installation and termination.
Hi guys,
I'm just looking over a job putting power to a summer house but am wondering if anyone has any recommendations on how to lay the cable.
The cable length from the house is 50M going up the house side wall, across a patio, up a 10m wall (onto a balcony garden) then across a balcony...
Is there any requirement or logic to using fire-retardant cable cleats for SWA inside a wooden shed?
There will be a 2 metre vertical run and a 3 metre horizontal run of 4mm 3 core SWA.
Small garden shed needs supply for x2 socket and a lights.
Client does not want anything fancy like a fuse board due to light usage of garden lawn mowers
Socket will only be used for lawn mowers.
The supply will be taken from the existing ground floor ring, the SWA from the house to the shed...
Hello I am new to this forum and need a little help from an experienced spark to help me design a circuit to wire a detached garage (two sockets and ceiling lights) from a house ring main to 18th edition standards. This will be notifiable so everything has to be pukka. Cable can be in steel...
Hi guys,
I need to run some power in my garden. Depending on what’s required I might be looking for an electrician to do the work. The cable run is about 30m and I want around 4 double sockets along it.
The questions are,
Can I spur it from an existing internal socket? Keeping the spur on the...
I am setting up a new garden workshop. I plan to fit a simple 3-way consumer with RCD in the workshop and running power though an armoured cable from another garden cabin. The garden cabin already as a 32A feed and a consumer unit, but I am unsure of how to run the feed off this consumer unit to...
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