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Steel wired armoured cable in the garden
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<blockquote data-quote="gocsan" data-source="post: 448237" data-attributes="member: 22108"><p>I've just called up an electrician and one of the questions he asked was if this SWA cable is directly connected from the consumer unit. I guess I forgot to mention further details in regards to my current set up to you all. So I've explained to the electrician that the SWA cable is a single spur from a junction box (with an on/off switch) that is part of a ring main to my living room. Apparently he said that he would not be able to certify this shed work as any cabling to the garden would require a separate circuit breaker connection on its own directly to the consumer unit. Without a spare switch in my consumer unit, he said I'll have to upgrade my consumer unit with more circuit breaker slots and have a new cable connecting from the consumer unit to the shed. At this point I said I'll think about it.</p><p></p><p>Is there no way other way to do this other than go along with what the electrician said? I would imagine this is going to cost me quite a bit and wondering if it's worth having any electricity in my shed at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gocsan, post: 448237, member: 22108"] I've just called up an electrician and one of the questions he asked was if this SWA cable is directly connected from the consumer unit. I guess I forgot to mention further details in regards to my current set up to you all. So I've explained to the electrician that the SWA cable is a single spur from a junction box (with an on/off switch) that is part of a ring main to my living room. Apparently he said that he would not be able to certify this shed work as any cabling to the garden would require a separate circuit breaker connection on its own directly to the consumer unit. Without a spare switch in my consumer unit, he said I'll have to upgrade my consumer unit with more circuit breaker slots and have a new cable connecting from the consumer unit to the shed. At this point I said I'll think about it. Is there no way other way to do this other than go along with what the electrician said? I would imagine this is going to cost me quite a bit and wondering if it's worth having any electricity in my shed at all. [/QUOTE]
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