22/04/2026
A customer of mine Darren and Kristy from a couple of years ago wanted me to quote on installing shed electrics last year, but after a set back they got a hot tub installed and needing electrics for this and a barbecue, after assessing the set up and being informed of the power consumption, their electrics under the stairs has a couple of consumer units with no capacity, so I advised them to have a new board which consists of a main switch, a SPD ( Surge Protection Device ) and a circuit breaker, so that if any issues occur, this wouldn't affect the house, and this was mounted on two pieces of batten wood and the board mounted on this.
Whilst installing a new board, a new 6mm armoured cable was installed, clipped around the wall, across the pathway, and laid into the garden, around the hot tub enclosure, and into the shed.
The new garage consumer unit with RCD ( Residual Citcuit Device ) had two circuit breakers, one for the external socket for the hot tub and internal socket for power tools and another one for the barbecue, all having plastic tube to protect the cables.
After three days, finally completed and working.