On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:34:31 +0100, "Owain"
wrote:

"Adrian" wrote
| As the timber single garage we currently have is rather past tense,
| I'm currently thinking about alternatives.

And 5th Nov offers a convenient opportunity to get rid of the old one :-)

| Final question - Power! To my mind, it seems easiest to take power
| down some external conduit to the garage - it'd be easy to take the
| feed from fusebox (MCB, but I just can't bear to call it a "consumer
| unit"..) out, and along several external walls fairly unobtrusively.
| Feasible? Or do I have to bury the soddin' thing underground -
| which is going to involve lifting a lot of brick paving.

It is permitted to run cables along walls, but not fences.


Probably best if you conduit it all the way to the garage, normal Twin
& Earth is not designed for exterior work, and will weather. It also
prevents somebody snipping the wire, accidentally or otherwise.

Alex