wiring a shed - advice needed

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erasmust

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Hi all,
Got my house rewired a while ago and had an outside cable ran from the fusebox so I can bring electricity to a old shed. have brought the cable in but when i recently tried to connect a socket it to it and plugged something in then all the sockets in the house tripped. thought i could manage to do this myself without getting a pro in. can anyone offer any advice. when wiring th socket i noticed the wire is quite heavy so do i need to run the power through something else in the shed first before i connect the socket?
thanks
 
It tripped the RCD so, that means there's a problem with the cable running to the shed. When you wired the socket, did you make clean, secure connections? If not, this may be your problem. It sounds like there was a time gap between the extension of the cable for the shed, and actually bringing it in to the shed. Was it sufficiently protected from water/damage during that time?

Ideally, the wire running to the shed (could be armoured cable) should be connected to a small distribution box in the shed, with lighting and sockets wired to different circuits. Depends on the size of the shed and what you're using it for though.

Electricity is a dangerous thing to be working with if you're not really sure what you're doing.
 
yeah it tripped it. it is wired correctly and is an armoured cable. I generally ok with electricity but maybe I do need someone for this. I was thinking maybe a distribution box or something similar may be needed. It's really only for a couple of sockets etc.
 
It's most likely the cable is damaged along the run somewhere so. A good electrician will have the equipment to test this.

Do you have a multimeter yourself? If so you could do some basic tests between the cores, and the cores and the sheilding and earth.

Any electrical wholesalers will supply you with a small distro box and the correct means of terminating the armoured cable to it.
 
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