08-04-2018, 02:35 PM
Must add, this bodge isn't of my doing, I just bought it like this!
Moved to Gloucester last November! Longlevens for any locals. I started putting stuff in the shed, before noticing that it leaked a bit and there were live wires exposed! Eeek! Turned it off and left it!
Fast forward to today, when I went out to sort it out. Turns out the live cables weren't actually connected to anything, so was safe. Has a clean up (previous had many dogs and there was furry evidence of this everywhere!) and snapped some pictures. Picture 2 is where the electricity comes in, through this thick cable which exits the house and goes underground, the grey wire goes off into picture 3 where it goes into that socket. The black plug goes back along the shed to an outside point about halfway down the garden. The white cables goes along to the light, then from that light to the light you can see see in picture 4, then down (I assume) to the sockets in picture 5.
Now this shed is showing signs of wear, there are holes here and there in the panels and the roof doesn't quite fit (it extends like a porch as you can see in the first picture) these gaps are not filled in so are exposed to outside. So i'm not exactly planning an extra room in there, more of a pottering around space. Several bits of the roof are damp and have white stuff on them (mould I guess) so some OSB3 will be required at some point. I can do that but I don't want to be messing with electrics if I don't have to. So all i'll be doing is the odd bit of DIY, some lighting and maybe a bluetooth speaker. Will I get away with what is in there electrics wise for that?
Last note, when the cable goes into my house, it just plugs into 2 sockets on the wall behind a kitchen unit. There is a switch on the RCB box saying "hot tub" (the previous owner had one) I'm hoping that this leads to these sockets and to outside!
Moved to Gloucester last November! Longlevens for any locals. I started putting stuff in the shed, before noticing that it leaked a bit and there were live wires exposed! Eeek! Turned it off and left it!
Fast forward to today, when I went out to sort it out. Turns out the live cables weren't actually connected to anything, so was safe. Has a clean up (previous had many dogs and there was furry evidence of this everywhere!) and snapped some pictures. Picture 2 is where the electricity comes in, through this thick cable which exits the house and goes underground, the grey wire goes off into picture 3 where it goes into that socket. The black plug goes back along the shed to an outside point about halfway down the garden. The white cables goes along to the light, then from that light to the light you can see see in picture 4, then down (I assume) to the sockets in picture 5.
Now this shed is showing signs of wear, there are holes here and there in the panels and the roof doesn't quite fit (it extends like a porch as you can see in the first picture) these gaps are not filled in so are exposed to outside. So i'm not exactly planning an extra room in there, more of a pottering around space. Several bits of the roof are damp and have white stuff on them (mould I guess) so some OSB3 will be required at some point. I can do that but I don't want to be messing with electrics if I don't have to. So all i'll be doing is the odd bit of DIY, some lighting and maybe a bluetooth speaker. Will I get away with what is in there electrics wise for that?
Last note, when the cable goes into my house, it just plugs into 2 sockets on the wall behind a kitchen unit. There is a switch on the RCB box saying "hot tub" (the previous owner had one) I'm hoping that this leads to these sockets and to outside!
