garage conversion -electricity

microbiology

Hi

I am converting the garage internally. I am having 4 extra sockets. what do I need to make sure for this to meet building regulations?
thanks

eddddy

microbiology wrote: »

I am converting the garage internally. I am having 4 extra sockets. what do I need to make sure for this to meet building regulations?
thanks

There's quite a long list of potential building regs requirements.

Take a look at the list here - work through the menu list on the left of the page from items 2 to 6.

https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/25/garage_conversion/2


Edit to add...

Or if you are asking specifically about the electric sockets, the easiest solution is to get them installed by a 'registered competent person'. They should ensure that the electric sockets meet building regs.

See: https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/16/electrics/2

AlexMac

When we converted a garage recently (to a habitable room with en-suite) we involved the local council Building Control service;

They asked our builder (who already had a fair knowledge of the regs) to beef up

- the insulation; not only adding wall insulation as he'd planned to a single skin bit of an external wall where there was not already rockwool in a cavity, but also putting slabs of the stuff above the new ceiling plasterboard and between the joists and above the airspace below the new suspended timber floor.

- the foundations across the former up and over garage door, which we replaced with brickwork and a window; he insisted on a concrete lintel in addition to poured concrete.

The latter seemed a bit OTT, but only cost a couple of hundred. The insulation was a similar added cost, but was a brilliant idea; the room is really cosy.

We also had drainage work for a new loo and en-suite, but I presume you don't plan that.

We did it by the book so that all work is covered by Council completion certificates. But unless you fear a future buyer getting upset at their absence you can probably get away with the legal minimum of a Domestic Installer Certificate from your Sparks' trade body; if he's not registered he can probably get a mate to test and certify the work.

Or just describe it as a storage area in any future sale, like people who cut corners and get lofts converted without Building Regs sign off?

00ec25

what do you mean by "I'm having"?
only a "competent person" can add a new circuit/sockets and such person should, by definition, know what BR apply