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Only if they have an electrical supply to them!!!

The twin and earth glands have in most cases IP66 or IP68 ratings for water ingress. No requirement what so ever in the circumstances these are used in!

I have just searched for specific glands for twin and earth and the rubber component in the gland I have used are not shaped for twin and earth cable. They have a circular hole which I assume is optomised for round cable. These multipurpose glands I used are to secure the twin and earth in the...

Two things that I have seen but not really noticed until recently! There is an earth terminal on the back of the socket face of a metal clad socket along with a live and neutral terminal. There is also an earth terminal on the inside of the metal clad socket back box. Should the earth terminal...

Sorry I did not mention my home lift is wired with 6mm twin and earth possibly a bit on the heavy duty side. On the original garage we were talking about, I would have used 4mm twin and earth with a C16 breaker but it was wired by someone else two years ago.

The car lift has been working for two years without an issue. I put a clamp meter on it the other day as someone brought one along with them, it recorded 20 amps at startup and went down to 12 amps after say 10 seconds. I 'm well aware that inexpensive clamp meters have a start up lag before...

That sound more reasonable than the boilerplate guidance, do a final check of what max load could be expected to be put on each of the two sides of the garage, then run each side of the garage sockets with a 20 amp breaker via 2.5mm twin and earth. Thank you both!

Thanks for the reply, the guidance on radial circuits seems to be for a a maximum of 50sqmtrs floor area per for 2.5 twin and earth radial circuit with a 20 amp mcb or 75sqmtrs with with 4mmsq twin and earth radial with a 32amp mcb or as you suggested rcbo's to stop the rcd switching off all the...

The garage is 17 mtrs x 15 mtrs in the UK The house has a 100 amp supply to the house consumer unit. The garage consumer unit is fed from a 63amp RCD to a 40 amp B rated mcb in the house consumer unit. The feed cable to the garage is 10mmsq SWA 3 core with the swa bonded to the earth...