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Can anyone help with the regs. for running an armoured mains cable to your shed from consumer unit?
How deep does it have to be buried and can you DIY and then get an electrician to sign it off or does he/she have to do it?
Cable will bear no more than 30amps and run lights and a small ring main, it will have its own consumer unit in shed.
Last time I did this I buried it 18" but not keen to do it again as that took a lot of digging
450mm is the depth the cable has to be laid on sand with sand over it and cable "warning " tape above it.
as you are aware the job should be reported to building control.
If you do the lay cable yourself I would be more than happy to do the job (leccies hate digging) as would most othere's, but they would insist on doing the job in the shed etc especially when work is scarce at the moment
hope this helps
Nadgers, 450mm that is 18" isn't it.
I've cabled the shed but not wired sockets/MCB in yet, would that be OK?
Or you ask your electrician to put a box on the outside of your extension then run a cable inside a waterproof pipe from it into your shed after the said electrician has signed off the rest of the work.
At least that is what I did (but the gap is all of 6 inches and impossible to get to).
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I'm thinking about this too so thanks for the info
Found out that it can actually go above ground as an option