Workshop electricity supply

[Anonymous]

thanks for all the replies and advice. For info my workshop is built onto the side of my house as an extension and is about 10 metres from the fusebox.

Looks like best course of action is 10mm cable 'just in case'. I'll be getting an electrician in to connect it up but plan to run the cable myself (so should only be an hours labour cost so he can check everything).

thanks again

 

[Digit]

Others insist that they fall foul of some requirement to adequately shield the terminals of the socket which the 16ampers don't meet.

Another mine field I promise you. Some years back I returned to my retail unit to find that I had had a visit from the Gestapo, (disguised as Trading Standards Officers) who had cut the 13 amp plugs from a number of items for sale.
Their reason? There were no shields around the base of the three pins so they claimed that people could get a shock from the partially exposed, still live pins.
I pointed out that the plugs were stamped with the appropiate BS number and asked if they were telling me that they did not if fact comply with that BS number.
'We'll put you through to our legal department', they hastily explained, who I asked the same question of.
'They are not safe!' They insisted.
'So they don't confirm to the BS spec?'
'We didn't say that!'
'Yes or no?' I insisted.
'Well, yes. But they are not safe!'
'Shouldn't you be taking this up with the manufacturures then, or is it easier to start on the little boys?' I wanted to know.
'That's not fair!'
'So you are taking it up with the manufacturers?'
Line goes dead, plugs go back on!