Garage Conversion Networking 26m from House

a1ex2001 · 9 Jun 2023 at 14:00

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I would use fiber

Shouldn't be an issue in a domestic setting the electrical systems in both the garage and the house are more than likely run back to the same consumer unit so they should then share the same ground, might be worth a quick check to make sure but it would be unusual for a garage to have a separate incoming mains supply and therefore meter and if it's not then it should be on the same ground connection.

Caged · 9 Jun 2023 at 14:09

In the UK even if you had two separate houses they'd need to be running earth rods before you'd get a potential difference, any PME system off the same transformer will be at the same potential (unless there's a fault but then all bets are off aren't they).

jaybee · 9 Jun 2023 at 14:27

I've known of people that dig a trench as much as they realistically can, then run the cat6 inside hosepipe for a bit of protection. Hosepipe tends to be cheap or if you have any lying about. Id recommend proper full copper cat6. Do it once properly.

a1ex2001 · 9 Jun 2023 at 15:52

Caged said:
In the UK even if you had two separate houses they'd need to be running earth rods before you'd get a potential difference, any PME system off the same transformer will be at the same potential (unless there's a fault but then all bets are off aren't they).

All my houses have had there own earth rod and not used any incoming connection for earth.

SpellowHouse · 9 Jun 2023 at 16:01

valve90210 said:
Cool so ok to just run Cat 6 in ducting along with armoured cable? (armoured mainly because there will be place at the start and end where it will need to be above ground)

No. You are not allowed to mix wildly different voltages in the same duct.
But the armoured cable does not need to be in a duct, so just bury the duct and the cable parallel to each other.
Oh, and yes, you can buy faceplates that you just plug a CAT6 cable in to, so you don't need any tools or knowledge. If you use a 20 mm flexible duct, only one CAT6 will fit through it, on account of the size of the plugs.

valve90210 · 14 Jun 2023 at 09:49

SpellowHouse said:
No. You are not allowed to mix wildly different voltages in the same duct.
But the armoured cable does not need to be in a duct, so just bury the duct and the cable parallel to each other.
Oh, and yes, you can buy faceplates that you just plug a CAT6 cable in to, so you don't need any tools or knowledge. If you use a 20 mm flexible duct, only one CAT6 will fit through it, on account of the size of the plugs.

I see, that makes sense. I'll be getting an electrician in to run the electric cable as it'll need some complicated routing to get where it needs to go so I'll just him to run cat6 at the same time.

thisisthecount · 18 Jun 2023 at 17:50

Caged said:
I would put the Cat6 in the duct and bury the power cable in the ground, you don't need to put armoured cable in a duct and it's a pain to pull round bends anyway. If just the data cable is in the duct then you can pull fibre or whatever through it later on without having to mess with a mains cable.

brilliant, thanks