Apologies if this is a really basic question.
My attached garage is powered by a separate ring main but the lights are part of the downstairs lighting circuit. Both come directly from my main consumer unit.
I have been advised that it would be sensible to have a separate consumer unit in the garage feeding both the sockets and lighting.
Whilst I am having that work done, I would like to increase the power supply to the garage. Whilst at the moment I run everything from a 13amp socket I would like the potential to run a larger welder in the future.
I have been told that the feed to the house is 100amp - certainly that’s the size of the main breaker in the consumer unit. On that basis (and assuming a large enough cable is run to the garage - about 15m run of armoured cable clipped to the external wall), could I have a 45amp supply to the consumer unit in the garage?
if so I would hope that the consumer unit would feed the garage ring main, the lighting circuit and a separate 16 or 32amp socket for the welder. Would that all work?
My attached garage is powered by a separate ring main but the lights are part of the downstairs lighting circuit. Both come directly from my main consumer unit.
I have been advised that it would be sensible to have a separate consumer unit in the garage feeding both the sockets and lighting.
Whilst I am having that work done, I would like to increase the power supply to the garage. Whilst at the moment I run everything from a 13amp socket I would like the potential to run a larger welder in the future.
I have been told that the feed to the house is 100amp - certainly that’s the size of the main breaker in the consumer unit. On that basis (and assuming a large enough cable is run to the garage - about 15m run of armoured cable clipped to the external wall), could I have a 45amp supply to the consumer unit in the garage?
if so I would hope that the consumer unit would feed the garage ring main, the lighting circuit and a separate 16 or 32amp socket for the welder. Would that all work?