Hooking up a caravan

[yorkshireman]

Does anyone know how easy/hard it would be to get power from the house to a caravan in the garden.

[pipeman01]

Simples. Just a bog standard 13a extension cable. Caravans have an adapter to take a regular plug and fit to a commando socket.

[Postmodern Smoking]

Have your holiday plans now been downscaled to a caravan in the garden

[thebishman]

Mar 24, 2016 20:05:32 GMT yorkshireman said:

Does anyone know how easy/hard it would be to get power from the house to a caravan in the garden.

Thats not what i call a holiday

[yorkshireman]

Mar 24, 2016 20:08:25 GMT Postmodern Smoking said:

Have your holiday plans now been downscaled to a caravan in the garden

Good answer,you got me there.

[yorkshireman]

Sorry i was thinking more long term so an open window is no good.

[calnorth]

Mar 24, 2016 20:10:53 GMT yorkshireman said:

Sorry i was thinking more long term so an open window is no good.

Its an underground armoured cable. So nobody but a JCB driver can wreck it. And that would likely need wiring into your consumer box.

You'll need a qualified electrician.

[thebishman]

Dont caravans have an external mains socket?

[Taylor]

Sounds like he's in the dog house.

[Postmodern Smoking]

As an alternative to a permanent connection using armoured buried cable to your caravan, you could get a waterproof socket on the exterior of your house, then run an extension cable. Depends really on what your plans are.


[ETA] - (as charliehorse says below.... the installation of an exterior socket would also require an electrician).

[charliehorse]

yorkshireman - most anything above an extension cable will require a qualified sparky these days due to the introduction of part p in the new regs.

www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/find-an-electrician/part-p/

[chykensa]

Does your caravan have provision for power hook-up? If so, with the help of the aforementioned qualified electrician, a bog standard hook-up cable running from house to caravan would do the job. Would need a supply attached to the outside of the property though, hence the sparky!

[300]

If it's a static you should really have your own network supply from the DNO, no PME earth allowed, TT earth only.

If it's a touring van then one of these...



& one of these...

[chykensa]

Wot 300 said ^^^

[yorkshireman]

It would be a tourer,i am sick of looking at over priced rents for flats and the ones that are affordable are in areas where i wouldn't sleep at night.I'm wanting to stick it in my parents garden for now,i know there are regulations for outside dwellings but i'll cross that bridge,just need my own space.