Rewiring Shed

mdbalson · 17 Feb 2007

Will how i am going to rewire the shed, be ok

securespark · 17 Feb 2007

RF Lighting said:
Sounds OK, but personally I would feed the shed from the non RCD side of the house CU, and then in the shed have either a CU with an RCD main switch, or better still (but more expensive) RCBOs for the circuits which require RCD protection.

Can I just double check how many MCBs will supply your grid switch?

The cleats I'm not sure about size.
I would go the the wholesaler and ask for cleats for a 6.0mm² 3 core SWA.

mdbalson · 17 Feb 2007

securespark said:
RF Lighting said:

Sounds OK, but personally I would feed the shed from the non RCD side of the house CU, and then in the shed have either a CU with an RCD main switch, or better still (but more expensive) RCBOs for the circuits which require RCD protection.

Can I just double check how many MCBs will supply your grid switch?

The cleats I'm not sure about size.
I would go the the wholesaler and ask for cleats for a 6.0mm² 3 core SWA.

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mdbalson said:
The way I am going to now rewire the shed is:

(Put the shed on the RCD CCU, for now & then move it over to the non-RCD side of the 9way Wylex split-load board am going to put in, to replace the old 6way MEM CCU with.)..................

securespark · 17 Feb 2007

Sorry. Don't follow...

mdbalson · 17 Feb 2007

securespark said:
Sorry. Don't follow...

I am going to put the shed on the RCD CCU for now, & then move the shed onto the non-RCD side of the 9 way split-load board, which I am going to replace the old MEM CCU with.

(P.S. CCU stands for Consumer Circuit Unit, which is what the Consumer Unit or Fusebox is now called)

securespark · 17 Feb 2007

So until you replace your CU, there will be an RCD in both the shed & the supply CU's?

mdbalson · 17 Feb 2007

securespark said:
So until you replace your CU, there will be an RCD in both the shed & the supply CU's?

I could in the shed for now, put all the circuits on the non-RCD side of the spilt-load board.

securespark · 17 Feb 2007

Yup. Then when you change the supply CU, swap things around in the shed.

Steve · 17 Feb 2007

mdbalson, this thread has dragged on for a while now. How about you rewire your shed, and then we'll tell you if its ok the way you've done it.

Good luck!

mdbalson · 16 Apr 2007

Here are some pictures of the old wiring in the shed

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00045.jpg

Old CCU Wiring:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00046.jpg

And notice that:

1) No Grommets on CCU

2) SWA not earthed propatly at the shed ccu end

3) wires in ccu not in the terminals propatly

4) Wrong Fuse backing on the lighting slot (30A Back instead of 5A one)

mdbalson · 16 Apr 2007

Here are some pictures of the start of the new wiring I am putting in the shed.

The pictures are of the new socket ring in the shed. It is going to have 3 Metalclad DSS & 1 Metalclad FCU for the Shed Heater. The CCU is a Wylex Metalclad 5 way RCD CCU. It will have two 32A MCBs (For the Shed sockets & the Outside power) & one 6A MCB (For the Shed light & Outside Shed light).

The shed will be fed by 6mm 3 core SWA from a 32A MCB on the Non-RCD side of the House CCU.

New Shed CCU:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00050.jpg

2 New Sockets:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00051.jpg

1 New socket & FCU:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00059.jpg

New Shed CCU with shed ring wires:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00062.jpg

2 New Sockets with wires:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00061.jpg

1 New socket & FCU with wires:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00060.jpg

110V Flood Work Light:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00053.jpg

110V 25m Ext. Cable:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00054.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00055.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00057.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00056.jpg

110V Transformer:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/mdbalson/DSC00058.jpg

Adam_151 · 16 Apr 2007

Third pic down? why an inspection bend on the corner of the shed? wouldn't it just have been easier and neater to pull a 90 degree bend there?

Edit, I'd have probably have installed a radial instead of a ring, and taken the conduit in one side of the sockets and out the other instead of using tees

mdbalson · 16 Apr 2007

Adam_151 said:
Third pic down? why an inspection bend on the corner of the shed? wouldn't it just have been easier and neater to pull a 90 degree bend there?

Edit, I'd have probably have installed a radial instead of a ring, and taken the conduit in one side of the sockets and out the other instead of using tees

I put in the tees so that it is easyer to change the back box, if needed.

Why would you have installed a radial instead of a ring

ricicle · 16 Apr 2007

Snoozzzzzzzzzzze!.....................................................

mdbalson · 17 Apr 2007

So does what I have done so far look ok

And is anyone going to comment on the rubbish old wiring

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