Outside garage power?

ic

Run armoured cable from the consumer unit in the house to a smaller garage consumer unit like this:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/33248/Electrical-Supplies/Consumer-Units/MK-Consumer-Units/MK-Sentry-4-Way-RCD-Garage-Consumer-Unit

From that you can then run off lighting and socket circuits. I have one in my shed.

House_Hunter

Hmm...interesting option. Like the idea of a separate CU in the garage....

As I am soon to be laying a new path to the garage (~30m) I was thinking of using blue MDPE pipes under the path to run the power cables down...T'ing off at suitable points to have lights along the path.

So could run a single large bore cable down to the garage CU and then a separate smaller bore cable circuit back down to the respective lighting points?

Whats your thoughts around use of ELV? Easier on the safety front I suppose....

googler

ic wrote: »

Run armoured cable from the consumer unit in the house to a smaller garage consumer unit ......

At last..... only took 12 posts to get here....

House_Hunter

easy.... calm it down.

Owain_Moneysaver

keystone wrote: »

Your assuming he's not self-employed than?

Yes there is - the business (whether a company or self employed) must be competant to be able to self certify. CLICKY

Cheers

Yes, assuming the contractor is not self-employed.

The legal entity must be registered, but the person doing the work does not have to be trained, qualified, or competent in any sense of the word.

Contractors will need to demonstrate their competence by:
employing and supporting a Principal Duty Holder and Qualified Supervisor

NICEIC

Owain_Moneysaver

House_Hunter wrote: »

So could run a single large bore cable down to the garage CU and then a separate smaller bore cable circuit back down to the respective lighting points?

Or, assuming you can use the armour for the earth (which your electrician will calculate using the adiabatic equation) the you can use triple-core SWA, one core fused at (say) 20A for power and one core fused at 6A for lighting, sharing a neutral.

If you want the lights switchable individually or remotely you can use something like X10.

keystone

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Yes, assuming the contractor is not self-employed.

The legal entity must be registered, but the person doing the work does not have to be trained, qualified, or competent in any sense of the word.

No but he must be supervised by someone who is and BOTH of them MUST sign the paperwork.

NICEIC

:rotfl:who like to think they are the only registration body in the world and promote themselves as a regulatory authority in these matters to boot. Oh sorry - you were just quoting them to reinforce the supervison aspect I have already commented on.

Cheers

Owain_Moneysaver

keystone wrote: »

No but he must be supervised by someone who is and BOTH of them MUST sign the paperwork.

:rotfl:who like to think they are the only registration body in the world and promote themselves as a regulatory authority in these matters to boot. Oh sorry - you were just quoting them to reinforce the supervison aspect I have already commented on.

Cheers

Don't they just.

The supervision aspect is a bit lax - if you have a contractor with 20 operatives on multiple sites and one Qualified Supervisor you can guess how thorough the supervision is.

Interestingly the government's own figures show an increase in electrical related deaths since the introduction of Part Pee. Which was foreseen in the Regulatory Impact Assessment before the legislation was passed.

fitshase

ic wrote: »

Run armoured cable from the consumer unit in the house to a smaller garage consumer unit like this:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/33248/Electrical-Supplies/Consumer-Units/MK-Consumer-Units/MK-Sentry-4-Way-RCD-Garage-Consumer-Unit

From that you can then run off lighting and socket circuits. I have one in my shed.

Same here. I have a separate CU in my garage at the bottom of the garden which is fed from the main CU in the house by a armoured cable. Got lights and sockets in the garage which work fine.

House_Hunter

Cool cheers......do you have any garden lights fed from that as well?

If you do, I'm assuming they are downstream of the garage CU?