This afternoon, we constructed a wooden box to provide electrical sockets and a place to store a reel of cable, all inside a rain proof cabinet.
This cabinet will be located beside the group of conduits and pipes sticking out of the concrete inside what will be the utility room, and we will stick the 50mm conduit from the Garage up through the bottom of the box and thread through a 2.5mm2 twin and earth electric cable and connect up 2 double sockets inside the cabinet.
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Using recycled 11mm OSB boards, we made a box measuring 420mm wide, 350mm deep and 600mm high, with a door and a sloping roof on top.
Tomorrow, we will paint the whole thing with bitumen rubber paint to make it rain proof and not rot. We couldn’t paint it today because when we brought in the container of bitumen from the outside storage shed, it was so thick and treacle like from the cold temperature, we abandoned the attempt! We put on the fan heater in the workshop overnight to warm it up so we can apply two coats of the paint twice in the same day.
This will make is so much easier to attach electrical items like floodlights, the automatic rain water extraction pump and anything else we need mains electrical power whilst working on the house.