Fish 'Shed' Is under construction!!

[simonbrown403]

My understanding was, if you feel you are a compitent with electrics you can, replace damaged ring mains and exstend exsisting, but not add new ones (rings from your comsumer unit)..... to make it leagal you have to submit form to the buildings office with a plan of what work you have done.

Its more to scare diys disastor.

 

[jimboliana]

Looks very nice,

Keep up the good work and the pics

 

[breezer40]

Looks great smithrc! Glad to see you are finally getting it done .. now you just need to fill it (wont take long trust me)

 

[Fella]

Man alive, it looks incredible! I'm glad to see MK is keeping it's weather good too

 

[daza]

re the electrics..

there is still some debate as to what Part P of the building regs actually covers.

Here are the FAQs from the IEE. It would appear from reading that, that it would fall under the regs.

It's a shame because plenty of people are quite capable of doing the work themselves but aren't allowed now.

And an outside building isn't really something where you can just pretend "that's been there years".

 

[breezer40]

re the electrics..

there is still some debate as to what Part P of the building regs actually covers.

Here are the FAQs from the IEE. It would appear from reading that, that it would fall under the regs.

It's a shame because plenty of people are quite capable of doing the work themselves but aren't allowed now.

And an outside building isn't really something where you can just pretend "that's been there years".

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I looked into the legalities when I had my fish house wired which is not conected to any part of my house so had to be wired up with its own fuse box via the mains and after seeking advice we were told:

Electrical work needed to be carried out by someone who was trained or competent (not necessarily qualified) but the conecting of armered cable from the electric metre can only be carried out by the supplier of that electric. For safety reasons and to ensure that the house insurence is not effected by the work it was advisable to have all electrical worked checked by a qualified electrician and certified as safe after installation.

 

[smithrc]

I'm actually more qulified in the eyes of the new legislation than my Dad who has been doing it for 15 odd years (And I've got and electronics degree - not exactly related to electrics!)

Anyway I'll be doing it myself and wont think twice about it... untill the time comes to sell (and that wont be for many years to come)

So... the latest update with piccys...

All the walls are in.
All the membrane is in.
90% of the insulation is in

Just need the door building and hanging and before the plasterboard goes in I need to decide if I want to run the electrics round the walls or weather to be neat (like I'd prefer) and run them in the walls.... If i run them external I can always add and extend easily so i think I'll do that for the mains but the lights (as in shed lights - not tnak lights) I'll run in the ceiling.

I've decided to go with the felt and tar roof.

All that needs to be sorted now is the door, the electrics and panel the ends

Ask and you shall recieve

 

[smithrc]

ah heating... not sure yet - I'll bee ceeping the tanks at different temperatures and to be honest with the amout of insulation that has gone into this i dont thin the room will need heating. I'll run the tanks seperatly and see how it goes - If not I'll get a stand alone oil heater.

I am however considering extraction... Probubly wired up to a room stat so that if it gets too hot in there the fans come on... and if i put a vent throught to the garage it'll draw the cooler air from there to lower the temp

I'm not planning this to become a fully fledged fish house (yet) so the tank arrangement will remain a bit hap-hazzard. I want room in there for work top area for my RC cars too and the lawn mower will be in here too (along with the garden water butt.

 

[laurasmithuk]

its looking great mate. I WANT ONE..... they say jealously is the green eyed monster hehe

 

[Fella]

I daren't ask if you needed (or applied for) planning permission for this From the looks of things, it would have taken longer than the actual construction!

 

[smithrc]

I daren't ask if you needed (or applied for) planning permission for this From the looks of things, it would have taken longer than the actual construction!

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Dont need it...

 

[CFC]

Plasterboard!! EEEK, plasterboard has no place in a fish house, trust me ive seen first had the results of plasterboard being used in a damp humid enviroment and its not pretty. You would be far better off to line the inside with 4mm plyboard and then seal it with a quick coat of a oil based undercoat.

 

[smithrc]

Plasterboard!! EEEK, plasterboard has no place in a fish house, trust me ive seen first had the results of plasterboard being used in a damp humid enviroment and its not pretty. You would be far better off to line the inside with 4mm plyboard and then seal it with a quick coat of a oil based undercoat.

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you see... this is why I've posted a thread

I was planning on leaving a 25mm gap round the floor so any spillages would not be soaked up but haddnt thought about the humidity

Ply is going to be a bugger on cost though!

 

[quintessential]

Been away and missed the start of this thread,
Looking good there. Like a kid in a sweet shop I want one.

 

[Mr Miagi]

Even treated ply would swell would it not?

I must ask, what kind of set ups you gonna have in it smithrc?