On 08/12/2010 08:45, ARWadsworth wrote:
wrote:
I think the time has finally come when I may get to convert the
"storage room" at the end of the garage into a "workshop" as was
intended when the building was erected about 10 years ago. With that
in mind I need to wire up the electrics (there's already a CU there,
currently supplying lighting and a single socket for the garage).

Thanks to all for lots of really useful advice - I feel much more
confident about this now.

Are you wanting the cable in conduit in all the workshop or just for the
drops down to switches and sockets? If it is all conduit then you need to
use single cables not T&E.

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I often just run a big piece of trunking around the garage between the
ceiling and wall and just use conduit for the drops (a 20mm hole cutter is
needed). That way I can use T&E and any additions later are easy. It is a
damn site easier and faster than using conduit all over the place.

Well in fact, thinking about it, that will suit my purposes really well.
I was indeed intending just to install drops to sockets and switches;
the workshop has a plasterboarded ceiling and there's a semi-permanent
floor above sitting on the ceiling joists, so I see no reason why I
can't just run 'horizontal' runs of T&E above the ceiling unprotected
(ie as I would in the house) and then have 2xT&E drops down to all the
accessories, within 1-metre-ish straight lengths of 20mm trunking, which
pokes through the ceiling. All very much easier than I'd envisaged!

Thanks
David