Having a 6 way consumer unit added to garage and the landscapers are putting in new door to back of greenhouse for access.
This is coming from the main electrical box in house via armored cable into garage so i can shut of power from house as well.
Hi Camb
I went out this morning and photographed the electrics in my greenhouse so you can see how I dealt with my electrics.
Like you I have run an overhead armoured cable from the house via an RCD adjacent to the main consumer unit in the house.
This means my ouside electrics are isolated from the rest of the house so if something blows outdoors it does not affect the house.
The cable runs along a six foot high boundary fence to my greenhouse in to my Electric box which I have fitted in the greenhouse to protect the socket boxes from accidental water splash as you can see here:
(The control to the side of it is the thermostat to my fan heater.)
This is what is in the box:
In the top right hand corner is the spur box that connects the outside supply.
Then I have spurred off a supply to 2x2 socket boxes.
OK they are not waterproofed outdoor boxes but twenty or so years ago Health and Safety was not so stringent and the fact they are in there own closed box I thought then that this was protection enough. Up to press I have never had the system trip out so it must be working OK.
As you can see I have my fan heater supply in one socket, my soil cable in another and the third is a supply to the strip light.
The fourth one served as a power supply to the grow light I had once fitted, but now I just have it as a spare.
I have also spurred of to give me a couple of spare sockets for operating my outdoor tools, eg. the lawn mower and my wireless/tape recorder.
This is a long view of my set up:
The next picture shows my fan heater, hot bed and the soil cable thermostat.
The reason for the tape is the thermostat control is quite slack and I have often bumped against it which would either increas or lower the heat setting either of which is not good news.
The tape prevents this happening.
So I hope this gives you some ideas on how to set up a greenhouse electrical system.....Tg