Recent content by Engagesafetysquint

Cheers, I’m not going to. I just wanted to arm myself with a bit of a clue before I went looking for one. I want to get involved with the job if I can so hopefully I can find someone who’s willing to talk with me and let me do the donkey work. I’m a mechanical engineer by trade, can’t see...

Cheers, what I want to know is the electrician going to laugh in my face when I ask him if my thoughts are viable, or am I barking up the wrong tree. In an ideal world I’d like to run it past him, run all the cable to the boxes, and then let him do the magic bits. I haven’t asked any...

Thanks, I’ll have a look and see if a bigger RCD is attainable. Does the rest of the system sound ok/ legal?

You mean in the house consumer? I was looking at running the cable from a weatherproof box outside the house on the wall directly adjacent to the consumer then run the cable with cleats along the outside wall which transfers directly to a brick garden wall which runs right behind the shed. Can...

No, I just wear a warm jumper. At the very most I will have a small low watt bar heater set up under the lathe to keep the surfaces corrosion free.

Hi all. New to the forum and not really clued up on proper terminology so bear with me. I want to rig up my new shed with 4 double sockets for items such as battery tool charging,bench top grinder , bench top drill press + small lathe. I also want a lighting circuit which will power 3x...