outdoor electrics

Hello, We had a garden office built a couple of years back and it seems the electicians laid the armoured cable in the hedge separating us and they neighbour's properties (see photos). The neighbours have since cut back they're side of the hedge and it appears the cable has been laid on their...

Hi Folks, I moved into a house that had an existing SWA cable (20mm, 4-core) going from the house CU (RCD) up the garden to a smaller CU in a brick shed (about 80 feet away). When the house clearance people were clearing the garden they thought it wise to burn all the old weeds and ended up...

Hi all - need your valuable help to install a new 100W LED PIR floodlight outdoors (garden) and a CCTV. This is a new built with a few 30A RCCB protection units installed in the consumer unit. We are looking to install the floodlight and cctv in the garden. There is currently a light fixture...

Hello all. I'm thinking of running power to my shed for a few lights and a few sockets. I currently have an outdoor socket and was wondering if I tie into this, can I then run this to the shed where I'll have a consumer unit to then split the supply to lights / sockets. Any help would be much...

I'm pulling out some unruly hedges and putting in a gravel driveway in front of the house, and this is the intended location for a new EV (probably a Renault Zoe). I know the charging station will require installation by a proper electrician (probably one of these: http://pod-point.com), but am...

Hi all, Hoping you can help. I finally erected a small shed next to my green house yesterday. The greenhouse has an electrician-installed shielded cable down our concrete fence, from our house which is directly connected to an RCD. The greenhouse has a double socket, and I was thinking of just...

Greetings all, I've just temporarily installed a nest Outdoor Camera and fed the 25ft of cable through the windows until next week. I then intend to fit an external socket and take the power from that via the 3 pin plug. My idea is to do the following: Convert the unused phone socket next to...

I am looking at getting one of these to complete a courtyard project: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outsunny-Outdoor-Ceiling-Aluminium-Electric/dp/B01KYUNLJ2/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 They only come with 1.5m of cable which after talking to someone at another supplier of a similar thing...