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Hi all! thanks for the add 
I consider myself to be pretty competent with my wires. I completed the level 3 electrical building and structures course a few years back. Never progressed any further unfortunately due to health problems.
But anyway I just need a bit of advice on a workshop I'm building. My partner and I have just moved into a new,ish townhouse, about 7 years old. I'm going to be building a workshop at the back of its garden and I'm trying to work out the best/ safe/ most importantly Cheap, way to wire it.
The shed side is pretty easy, little 2 way CCU with 20 and 6 amp mcbs and a 30Ma RCD. Was gonna run single cores 2.5mms and 1.5mms in plastic conduit to the work bench sockets and light batten, but not sure the latest regs will allow that anymore. I'm sure i heard somewhere it has to be steel conduit only these days.
But anyway thats the shed side, so then connected to 2.5mm 3 core SWA and run to the house. Unsure as to whether it has to be buried 3ft down, or if I can just clip it to the wall that runs from the house to where the shed will be. Obvs prefer not to have to mess about with shovels as one, the wife will murder me for destroying her new garden, and two, ill probably kill myself anyway as heavy work is quite difficult for me these days.
The hard part though is where it gets to the house. Being a newbuild its a pain in the arse. The CCU is under the stairs right in the middle of the property. Modern split board, although it is plastic, but has 1 or 2 spare slots for me to add the 32amp shed MCB.
I just cant work out hows best to get the cable to the CCU though? In my last house I ran the cables in the crawlway but this house seems to have a solid concrete floor throughout. I want to try and minimise the destruction to the house as much as I can but also want it to meet the regs :/
Cheers for any advice
Kind regards
Andy
I consider myself to be pretty competent with my wires. I completed the level 3 electrical building and structures course a few years back. Never progressed any further unfortunately due to health problems.
But anyway I just need a bit of advice on a workshop I'm building. My partner and I have just moved into a new,ish townhouse, about 7 years old. I'm going to be building a workshop at the back of its garden and I'm trying to work out the best/ safe/ most importantly Cheap, way to wire it.
The shed side is pretty easy, little 2 way CCU with 20 and 6 amp mcbs and a 30Ma RCD. Was gonna run single cores 2.5mms and 1.5mms in plastic conduit to the work bench sockets and light batten, but not sure the latest regs will allow that anymore. I'm sure i heard somewhere it has to be steel conduit only these days.
But anyway thats the shed side, so then connected to 2.5mm 3 core SWA and run to the house. Unsure as to whether it has to be buried 3ft down, or if I can just clip it to the wall that runs from the house to where the shed will be. Obvs prefer not to have to mess about with shovels as one, the wife will murder me for destroying her new garden, and two, ill probably kill myself anyway as heavy work is quite difficult for me these days.
The hard part though is where it gets to the house. Being a newbuild its a pain in the arse. The CCU is under the stairs right in the middle of the property. Modern split board, although it is plastic, but has 1 or 2 spare slots for me to add the 32amp shed MCB.
I just cant work out hows best to get the cable to the CCU though? In my last house I ran the cables in the crawlway but this house seems to have a solid concrete floor throughout. I want to try and minimise the destruction to the house as much as I can but also want it to meet the regs :/
Cheers for any advice
Kind regards
Andy
