Electricity cable to garden office

The effort to bury that cable, dig up everything and put it to the legal depth is significant. I'm assuming it's a steel wired armoured cable ? Put it in Conduit perhaps. But this is the job I see being done everywhere....

They are above board. I'd hardly call them a rogue operation. They will say what they are doing is perfectly safe and far more time effective. This is where the issue arises. Are you going to pay far more to bring electric out to the room?

If you are installing these left right and centre. This is the solution these companies will go with, unless the client stipulates otherwise beforehand. But most of the time, this isnt even on the radar of the client, when discussing the grander details of a garden room ...

Right. See it's a case of man hours and cost. Were this company more competitive on cost ? How far is the mains board from the garden room ?

I would agree, none of what they're doing is unsafe or against regulations, to my relatively uneducated knowledge. It's just that they're doing the simplest, quickest job possible to get power to the garden room. It's up to the OP or not if they are OK with that, probably aomethign that should have been ironed out up front. But they are where they are now with it. The options are:

1. Continue as is and live with it.

2. Stop the electrical install, get a professional electrician's opinion on the best course of action. And then negotiate with the garden room company on the path forward. That will likely incur additional costs. Either the garden room company will charge the OPs to do the electrical install the way they want or they will tell them to arrange their own elec install and the OP will have to pay an electrician to do it.

Either way OP, check your quote/contract with the garden room company for the elec install details before proceeding. If it's vague and just states that they'll connect up power, then you're a bit at their mercy as to how ots done if you didnt discuss it in advance. Your only bargaining chip is the final payment.

I'll take photos of my setup shortly, it's a work in progress so things could go haywire yet! But it'll give you an idea of the intent anyway.

Ya I take it back, that's a fairly poor effort. And judging by the comments of others, non-compliant. The lack of sealing to the main fuse board and garden room is a bad sign. My setup is attached. 10sq SWA ran under the lawn. Dug a 3ft trench, put a 4in sand base on it, in with the SWA, more sand on top, warning tape, backfill with topsoil. Put an ESB hockey stick conduit in the concrete base formwork and fed the SWA through it. It comes into the corner of the shed ready for wiring to a small fuse board. The other end is incomplete. I have 2 options. Run steel conduit along the block wall and feed the SWA through it. Then cut footpath and feed SWA under footpath and into utility room where the consumer unit it. Or dig out the stone along the verge of the block wall and bury the SWA in the same way as the garden, and under footpath then into the utility room. Electrican I use was out pre shed build and insisted that we wire to the consumer unit. Was the safest and best job according to him.

And yes, my garden is destroyed. Shed was fitted 2 weeks ago after 6 weeks of incessant rain. It's a poorly drained lawn anyway and the 15m2 area of concrete in it now hasn't helped. You'll see I've a post on boards for advice on a drainage project for next spring! 😉

Get onto the garden room company and tell them the elec install isn't acceptable. You have leverage as they need your final payment for the job. See how that goes and take it from there. They might be well reviewed but remember the vast majority of homeowners aren't like yourself, most haven't an iota about safe electrical installation. And neither do I, hence consulting with an electrican.

What a **** show that install is

What meercat said , do not pay balance , report this ,

Your main tails have been cut and altered.you have no gland in your ocpd. This will have to be rectified and the house tested and certified.

this is just to put back what you originally had

then your new office will have to be wired back to your distribution board in the house.

this will have to be done correctly and a separate certificate issued for this work

There was a similar case here of garden office and the shed end of the wiring was not compliant according to an electrician.

I suggest you get a quote asap to get everything checked and put right. Then put that quote to the company. Check the fine print of their agreement, often electrics are excluded. You should also check fire safety such as smoke alarm l, CO2 detector etc. Often these sheds don't comply with many regulations.

More than likely the cables in that installation are for Uk ,

non insulated cpc and not a lsf type cable , been northern based company