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Wiring a garden building

MikeD

I will be building a garden office shortly. It will be 5 metres from the house and I'd like advice on the supply cable please.

I think I have two options:

Run 15 metres of 2.5mm2 SWA from the consumer unit in the house to the CU in the garden building

Run 5 metres 2.5mm2 SWA from the garden building to a Wiska box on the house wall then 10 metres of 4mm2 T+E to the house CU

Are there any strong reasons for choosing one or the other? Is it practical to connect SWA to a consumer unit?

Thanks,

Mike

 

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  • 0 in reply to MikeD

    I made that video about 40 years ago! Still worth watching. 73.

  • 0 in reply to David Stone

    Fascinating video David, thanks for sharing.

    As for my wiring conundrum, I'm not looking forward to the discussions with the electrician / building control surveyor as I doubt they would have come across this before. Perhaps an SPD in the house and mains filter in the shack is a starting point.

    Mike

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