House to shed wiring diagram. The radial lighting circuit has 3 common wiring options which may be mixed at will. A new bsen61008 main switch amendment 3 consumer unit was installed by the. The circuit is fed to each lamp fitting in turn and a. Check your local codes but the basic requirements are 1 adequate gauge wire and breaker 2 gfci protection on the circuit and 3 special underground wire or conduit.
Wiring a shed where to begin planning is the critical first step to wiring an outdoor shed. You dont need a consumer unit in the shed. The distance from the house to the shed could be longer than the entire run of the house. It is the right wire for home wiring and for my needs in my shed.
Loop in as per diagram above. Installation of a 20a supply to a new rear garden shed. Wiring a small storage shed isnt a major electrical project but you will need to pull a permit and have all the required electrical inspections performed by the authority having jurisdiction ahj. Anyway previously there was a supply running off a 16a mcb in the house consumer unit out to the garden shed all this fed was some lights.
Sep 20 2016 1. Discussion in electricians talk started by beachbob. The wire that i got for this project was a type 12 2. For all residential wiring the wiring has to be a minimum of 12 gauge thickness remember smaller numbers means thicker wire.
Make sure that the wire is inside the conduit before you start the installation. A high current mcb supplying storage heaterssometimes these are run from the main cu but often from a timeswitch controlled dedicated cu with either a separate off peak electricity meter or a dual tariff meter. If you have a 13a limit at the house end. 6amp breaker for the lights and a 16amp breaker for the couple of.
The one thing that even prefabricated shed kits lack is the wiring for a light and a receptacle or two. An important feature of most outdoor wiring projects are the distances involved. An outlet on the outside of the house provided a source for power so we dug a ditch from that location to where we would build the shed.