Lobster wrote:
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.

[...]

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!

There is no reason at all why you cannot do it that way. Just remember to
keep the T&E flat when pulling/pushing it through the conduit.

--
Adam