Currently researching how to run the electricity in the workshop I'm building in the back of the garden. Just for clarification, I will not be doing this myself, but I want to know what is possible before I have an electrician come in and do what I don't want (I want that all important EICR for when I come to sell the house at some point...). The floor area is > 15m, so i think i fall under fire regs (in terms of walls, at least)
Basically, the shed/workshop/office will have a double plasterboard inside, onto a stud wall. I'm going double plasterboard for noise reasons, so I need to avoid as many holes as possible in the boards. This suggests to me I need surface mounted boxes and cables.
My original idea was to just run cable trunking (the 2x2 inch variety) along the top of the walls (close to the double plasterboard ceiling), but then I read a post somewhere here that trunking has fire regs associated with it. The trunking will hold a ring main (I guess) and maybe some individual cables for 2-3 16amp sockets, and also some ethernet cable (3-4?)
Is there anything in particular I need to do to the walls in order to not fall foul of fire regs for the trunking? I am hoping to install the trunking myself, as I'm worried an electrician will come and bang screws through my vapour barrier etc. Can I just screw it with normal woodscrews through my plasterboard into the wall plate, for example?
Basically, the shed/workshop/office will have a double plasterboard inside, onto a stud wall. I'm going double plasterboard for noise reasons, so I need to avoid as many holes as possible in the boards. This suggests to me I need surface mounted boxes and cables.
My original idea was to just run cable trunking (the 2x2 inch variety) along the top of the walls (close to the double plasterboard ceiling), but then I read a post somewhere here that trunking has fire regs associated with it. The trunking will hold a ring main (I guess) and maybe some individual cables for 2-3 16amp sockets, and also some ethernet cable (3-4?)
Is there anything in particular I need to do to the walls in order to not fall foul of fire regs for the trunking? I am hoping to install the trunking myself, as I'm worried an electrician will come and bang screws through my vapour barrier etc. Can I just screw it with normal woodscrews through my plasterboard into the wall plate, for example?