Update on this - I had asked a few electricians for this work and ended up with someone local to me and we agreed a price - it wasnt that good result in the end.
Before the works commenced
takeaways
- No works cert
- not a good job for several reasons I will mention
- No rubber gaskets to seal the wires coming from the shed
- ended up doing much of the work myself - I got some dewalt tools
So the wires (1 x 3 core SWA 2.5mm and 1 x 5 core 1.5mm HO7RN) were laid on the borders before he arrived, this was what was agreed - like so, concrete is used at intervals to fix the wires in place and covered with decorative stone - a conduit is used for the 5 core.
Guy arrived on a Sunday and took a long time to do what he did do - we had a verbal agreement on what was needed to be done
1. Fit a double gang metal box in the shed
2. Route the wires from the rear of the shed neatly into the shed and connect up
3. Fit a CCTV in agreed location
4. Get any glands and junction boxes as required - 2 x junction boxes for LED strips on the planters, 1 x junction box for CCTV
1. Took forever to do this work - talking 10am till about 5 or after 5pm.
2. Messed up all the wires in the back of the shed as he fitted the 2 gang socket way too high so had to physically drag the wires upwards removing them from the border they were sitting into - I re wired all this work, tidied up all the wires at the back of the shed also which was difficult due to the lack of room.
3. Never had glands that were needed - I had a buch lying around but they were not IP rated and he used them and took them home also for good measure
4. Junction boxes on the lighting were IP55 not good
5. Junction box on the camera was not fitted with correct glad to match the conduit so he filled the gap with silicon
6. He did fit a fused spur on the outside 2 gang IP socket that was going to the shed - that at least was a good job.
This is the way it is now, the guy who done the slabs did a good job and I had no issues with him.
The LED stip is waterproof and controlled with an app - uses about 12 / 13Watts according to the solar controller.
I have 2 X flood lights in the house, one in the back
and one in the drive
when doing this work and seeing what a bad job the guy done I decided to put conduit over all the wires and re position the CCTV also - it took a long time but looks much neater
The chap positioned it mid way in the wall, in other words showing more of my neighbours sauna than my own property, I moved it near the corner which is where I wanted it in the first place, since its a PTZ camera and I can rotate it to my patio
he did say he would move it but he never did arrive making up excuses and in the end just got tools and finished it myself
Will probably get the usual bashing from others saying oh the house will blow up, there will be a neuclear disaster etc etc but it is what it is.