pinky Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Anyone a electrician on here I need help with wiring my shed with electricity just need questions answered on what I need and where I can get it frm pinky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_seamons Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 I'm no electrician, but its not exactly hard. What exactly are you trying to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 I'm no electrician, but its not exactly hard. What exactly are you trying to do? ← Just going to create a spur from the house to a shed I need to know where to get plugs and some sort of tough cabling though pinky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 B&Q is always a good bet if you ask me. A lot of the stuff they sell is a bit shifty though BUT if you buy the premium stuff (the most expensive brand available for each item) you can't go far wrong. As for taking the cabling across... If it's permanent I'd buy some piping from your local plumbing supplies store and bury it - this way the cable will be protected from everything and should last forever (Y) Wiring the plugs is as simple as stripping back the covering of your cable, to leave you with three inner wires... you then strip these back and put the corresponding colour into the points on the plug and crew them down tight. All common sense really :S :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Yes I know all this but I want to buy online and im not sure on the cable I need, you have to be a trained electrcican now otherwise its illegal (Y)" pinky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 He's not exactly a pro, but my dad orders loads of stuff from Screwfix Direct :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 (edited) What you need is... Standard Triple Core Flex cable - Ten Pounds for 50m I'm not 100% what your output is to be, I presume your not daft enough to try and wire straight to the mains - so heres what you should think about... One standard 13A plug - 40 pence One standard output socket - £1.74 EDIT: Tomm beat me to it! all of the above links are to items on screwfix direct - Just lazy links 'cause I was feeling helpful :) Edited March 15, 2005 by nichols_sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 (edited) What you need is... Standard Triple Core Flex cable - Ten Pounds for 50m I'm not 100% what your output is to be, I presume your not daft enough to try and wire straight to the mains - so heres what you should think about... One standard 13A plug - 40 pence One standard output socket - £1.74 EDIT: Tomm beat me to it! all of the above links are to items on screwfix direct - Just lazy links 'cause I was feeling helpful :) ← I love you guys :"> cheers all pinky im gonna have a rcd by the way and no im not daft enough to wire it to the mains there isnt any need :) would it be possible to have a 4 socket output on a spur? Edited March 15, 2005 by pinky@shitbmx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inzane_2 Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Yes I know all this but I want to buy online and im not sure on the cable I need, you have to be a trained electrcican now otherwise its illegal :-" pinky ← Yep you are right but it was only affective from oct 2004 i think, so if you just say it has been there for years if anyone comes round and inspects it. As for ways of doing it if you are taking it underground make sure you know where it is, theres nothing worse than your family doing a spot of gardening when you need the power most! You can get cable in lots of places now, if you know what you are doing it might be worth taking some new cable from the fusebox and putting its own fuse in there, because of the weather conditions outside etc if it shorts out it will only take the fuse out rather than taking out all of what ever breaker you put it on... good luck, make sure you turn your power off before you add onto the circuits!! Jono Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 You can get cable in lots of places now, if you know what you are doing it might be worth taking some new cable from the fusebox and putting its own fuse in there, because of the weather conditions outside etc if it shorts out it will only take the fuse out rather than taking out all of what ever breaker you put it on... good luck, make sure you turn your power off before you add onto the circuits!! ← I think he's just on about making a big-ass extension cord, basically. I.e. it just plugs into one of the sockets in the house? Maybe I'm wrong though :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 I think he's just on about making a big-ass extension cord, basically. I.e. it just plugs into one of the sockets in the house? Maybe I'm wrong though :) ← yer thats the shizzle :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 (edited) buy a 25 m extension cord if al else fails , and try newey and eyre much better than b+q , to be honest you couuld buy a looooooooong extension cord and get a short 4 bar rcd one to plug in , i do this regularly so pm me for any help . also why buy 50 m when he probably needs half that Edited March 16, 2005 by daahnhillaaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted March 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 also why buy 50 m when he probably needs half that ← yer thats the problem I only need like 15ft of it (Y) I was gonan get a extension cord but Id rather have one cable pinky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 ok well msn me gerbilinafishtank@hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 also why buy 50 m when he probably needs half that ← I'm not sure if you actually took the time to click the link, but that place only does it in a 50m reel and at £10 does it really matter? One day you might need a bit more... Less speed more haste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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