Home DIY

Re: the temporary shed CU set up. I am more buoyed by reading and realising that caravans etc use a similar set up for hooking up to the mains. My plans are as follows;

• Get a small CU with a 68A RCD and have the inlet terminated with a 13A plug that I can connect to my long extension when I want to use power. Fully disconnect when not in use.
  
• Fit a 6A MCB for lights (probably only a single LED strip light to start with).
  
• 1 gang 1 way switch for said light.
  
• 2 x 16A MCBs for two socket circuits, 2 x double pole double sockets on each circuit.
  
• 1.5mm T&E for the lighting circuit
  
• 2.5mm T&E for the sockets
  
  

The above would only really be a fancy extension lead set up really, with the CU/RCDs being a bit redundant as the whole thing is coming off a 13A plug on the MCB/kitchen socket circuit anyway (external, weatherproof socket outside the kitchen).

The long term plan would be to run a proper SWA cable off it's own circuit out there and then upgrade the socket MCBs if I want to run something beefy or a heater or something. Having everything already in place at the shed end will hopefully make it an easy swap. But this won't happen until the kitchen is done.

I could just use an extension lead full stop until the full cable is run, but having a separate light switch and sockets on the walls would be nice from the get go, and I get to play around with where they are best placed. I can then keep the extension lead by the back door, plug it into the external socket and unspool it as I walk down to the shed, plug the CU tail in and it's ready to go.

Unless of course someone can tell me this will bring a pox upon my house and damn me for all eternity.