Soup wrote:
soup wrote:

snip original question

Thanks all, will take a dawnder down to B&Q tommorow to buy 1.25 mm^2
cable, hopefully they will sell it by the metre, may even get 1.5mm^2
depending on price, not too bothered if wire is a bit thicker and less
flexible.
BTW Seem to remember there is a difference viz wire V cable V flex
does anyone know what this difference is.

They don't sell it by the metre any more. Why not just get a made-up
extension cable or cable reel? They will be labelled with the current
rating - so never mind about cable thicknesses - eg for at Screwfix, for
£4.25 (10A):
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...46713&id=13941

The capacity you need is really not at all 'special'; it's not as if
you're trying to run a 3kW fire or a toaster at the end of a 100m
extension or something!

David