Buying a house - installing electricity in garage

ormus

3 ft undergound, is earthed.

vaio

new2012 wrote: »

Or just use a long extension lead, that's what I did. Took the plug off and fed the wire through a length of 1 inch plastic pipe.

You'll get much less criticism if you change "pipe" to "conduit"

McKneff

Cant believe how many people who have no idea mess about with electrics and gas, both are killers.

Get an electrican in and get a quote.

Its called 'armoured' cable for a reason.

thefishdude

have done it myself but over a shorter distance was about 10 meters. got an armoured cable kit basically youhad a normal wire that went through your wall and connected inside that then went into a junction bob you attached tooutside wall then there was armoured cable comming from that tp bury in the ground

mrs_slapshot

Garage is about 20 meters from back of house. I think it would probably be too costly to do but if I do buy the house I will get a quote (from an electrician!)
Thanks for replies

keystone

vaio wrote: »

You'll get much less criticism if you change "pipe" to "conduit"

Don't make it any safer either above ground or below if its plastic. And I bet he didn't do his voltage drop calcs to size the cable conductors correctly and the remote location won't be earthed properly either.

Cheers

new2012

After all, one inch plastic pipe will easily withstand someone putting a spade through it..:eek:

I never said it was buried in the ground.

DVardysShadow

keystone wrote: »

and if its mounted above ground to avoid the spade in six months time UV from the sun will have rotted it and it will start to fall apart and when the squirrel chews through the flex poster will be moaning that he's lost a complete freezers worth of food and be demanding compo.

Cheers

Squirrels don't pay compo.

DVardysShadow

mrs_slapshot wrote: »

Garage is about 20 meters from back of house. I think it would probably be too costly to do but if I do buy the house I will get a quote (from an electrician!)
Thanks for replies

It is doable. And if this is the difference between buying the house or not, the price could well be background noise compared to buying a different house. I would willingly pay £800 for that job if it let me live in that house in the way I want, if the alternative is to pay another £8000 for a house which gave me what I wanted, which I did not like so much.

You haven't answered my question though - does the garage back on to the house in question? Because on this question hinges whether the job is feasible.

new2012

and if its mounted above ground to avoid the spade in six months time UV from the sun will have rotted it

Then the company who sold it as suitable for use outside will have to pay the compo.

All this over a 6 foot length of plastic conduit which runs along a fence.

It's been there 16 years and still as good as new.