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markyrp
Hi all,
I have a bit of a dilemma. A friend wants power in an outbuilding adjacent to his house. I was going to run a fused spur from his kitchen using SWA. He is only looking to run a fridge and a single light. Ideally the CU would be quite close to an external wall but unfortunately it is quite central in the house so only real option is via a fused spur.
My initial thought was to run the spur from one of the kitchen under counter sockets. Turns out that the socket I would need to use is supplied via a grid switch and is actually an FCU and has a dishwasher hardwired into it, as opposed to a plug and socket. What are your suggestions.
There appears to be a lot of debate on spurs connected to spurs etc. My thoughts so far:
1. Take a spur from the feed side of the existing appliance spur to another fused spur specifically for the outbuilding, fused at 13A. SWA from spur to outbuilding and into a 2 gang socket for fridge. Feed from 2 gang socket to a switched FCU, downrated to 3A to supply and protect lighting cct.
2. Replace the appliance FCU with a 1 gang socket, put a plug on the dishwasher and then take an FCU from the socket which could then feed the outbuilding. Rest of the wiring as above.
The cable run to the outbuilding is only approximately 3m in length so there wouldn't be a problem with voltage drop, etc.
All thoughts would be welcomed
I have a bit of a dilemma. A friend wants power in an outbuilding adjacent to his house. I was going to run a fused spur from his kitchen using SWA. He is only looking to run a fridge and a single light. Ideally the CU would be quite close to an external wall but unfortunately it is quite central in the house so only real option is via a fused spur.
My initial thought was to run the spur from one of the kitchen under counter sockets. Turns out that the socket I would need to use is supplied via a grid switch and is actually an FCU and has a dishwasher hardwired into it, as opposed to a plug and socket. What are your suggestions.
There appears to be a lot of debate on spurs connected to spurs etc. My thoughts so far:
1. Take a spur from the feed side of the existing appliance spur to another fused spur specifically for the outbuilding, fused at 13A. SWA from spur to outbuilding and into a 2 gang socket for fridge. Feed from 2 gang socket to a switched FCU, downrated to 3A to supply and protect lighting cct.
2. Replace the appliance FCU with a 1 gang socket, put a plug on the dishwasher and then take an FCU from the socket which could then feed the outbuilding. Rest of the wiring as above.
The cable run to the outbuilding is only approximately 3m in length so there wouldn't be a problem with voltage drop, etc.
All thoughts would be welcomed