Hi
I wondered if anyone could please guide me. I have a 16ft shed 6 meters away from the house in the garden which I bought to make into a cat play room / foster room for the odd stray cat or for mine to play in. They might never use it! But I want to heat it just in case they decide to. I am getting really high quotes for running an armoured cable from the house to the shed for something that may be a total flop in terms of use.
I was wondering if I could run an extension cable from the internal house socket, through a hosepipe for protection and into the shed and making the wire watertight etc. It will only run one small oil filled radiator which I think is 150w as I will use solar lighting in there and the radiator will be on probably 5-8 hours per day, maybe less.
The other option one electrician said was to fit an outside plug socket and either connect it to the main board or to another internal socket and run it from there and then run the extension from this as he said this would give more protection from overloading?
I am reluctant to spend out £250-350 for the full proper instalation in case they dont use it but if they do then long term I will do this plus it's a rented property so don't want to be spending a bomb.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
I wondered if anyone could please guide me. I have a 16ft shed 6 meters away from the house in the garden which I bought to make into a cat play room / foster room for the odd stray cat or for mine to play in. They might never use it! But I want to heat it just in case they decide to. I am getting really high quotes for running an armoured cable from the house to the shed for something that may be a total flop in terms of use.
I was wondering if I could run an extension cable from the internal house socket, through a hosepipe for protection and into the shed and making the wire watertight etc. It will only run one small oil filled radiator which I think is 150w as I will use solar lighting in there and the radiator will be on probably 5-8 hours per day, maybe less.
The other option one electrician said was to fit an outside plug socket and either connect it to the main board or to another internal socket and run it from there and then run the extension from this as he said this would give more protection from overloading?
I am reluctant to spend out £250-350 for the full proper instalation in case they dont use it but if they do then long term I will do this plus it's a rented property so don't want to be spending a bomb.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks