Hello all,
I have two wooden buildings in the garden, one is our summer house and the second is a kids playhouse that has been converted into a rabbit hutch. I'd like power and lighting for the rabbit hutch, taken from the summer house, which has its own consumer unit in it with one spare breaker.
I have bought all of the bits that I think I need, mostly on the advice of an electrician at work but I am a bit unsure how all the parts go together, so here I am.
The plan is to run armoured (2.5mm2, 3 core) cable out of the summer house consumer unit, through the floor of the summer house, underground to the rabbit hutch and in through the wall (high up, where they can't chew anything), into a junction box. The junction box will serve 1) a double socket; 2) a pull cord for a light; and 3) a lantern, mounted on the outside wall of the shed.
Aside from the cable and the clips, I have the following:
1 X junction box
3 X plastic glands
2 X armoured cable brass glands with banjo earth tags and PVC shrouds
1 X lamp holder
1 X pull switch
1 X double socket (plastic)
1 X outside lantern
So, I assumed that the two brass glands would be used: one out of the consumer unit in the summer house and one into the junction box in the hutch. Then the three plastic glands would be used to go from the junction box to:
a) the pull switch for the light
b) the double socket
c) the outside lantern
The consumer unit has its own RCD and the hutch is about 15M away. I'll connect the live of the armoured cable to the spare breaker in The CU and then the E and N will go to the rails.
I could do with some help on wiring this in, and I will draw up a wiring diagram soon. Is this something that you guys would be willing to help me with?
Thanks,
Nick.
P.S. If you think this is beyond a DIYer and don't want to help, just let me know.
I have two wooden buildings in the garden, one is our summer house and the second is a kids playhouse that has been converted into a rabbit hutch. I'd like power and lighting for the rabbit hutch, taken from the summer house, which has its own consumer unit in it with one spare breaker.
I have bought all of the bits that I think I need, mostly on the advice of an electrician at work but I am a bit unsure how all the parts go together, so here I am.
The plan is to run armoured (2.5mm2, 3 core) cable out of the summer house consumer unit, through the floor of the summer house, underground to the rabbit hutch and in through the wall (high up, where they can't chew anything), into a junction box. The junction box will serve 1) a double socket; 2) a pull cord for a light; and 3) a lantern, mounted on the outside wall of the shed.
Aside from the cable and the clips, I have the following:
1 X junction box
3 X plastic glands
2 X armoured cable brass glands with banjo earth tags and PVC shrouds
1 X lamp holder
1 X pull switch
1 X double socket (plastic)
1 X outside lantern
So, I assumed that the two brass glands would be used: one out of the consumer unit in the summer house and one into the junction box in the hutch. Then the three plastic glands would be used to go from the junction box to:
a) the pull switch for the light
b) the double socket
c) the outside lantern
The consumer unit has its own RCD and the hutch is about 15M away. I'll connect the live of the armoured cable to the spare breaker in The CU and then the E and N will go to the rails.
I could do with some help on wiring this in, and I will draw up a wiring diagram soon. Is this something that you guys would be willing to help me with?
Thanks,
Nick.
P.S. If you think this is beyond a DIYer and don't want to help, just let me know.