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My Shed Leeking

Went down to the shed to do some work on me Ebike. It was raining at the time.

Water on floor

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As you can see there is water on the floor. I know some of the water comes in from under the door but this part of it seems to be coming from under the wall to the left of the door.

Fuse box Flexible Conduit

On having a closer look I discovered there is water dripping from the flexable conduit going to the fuse box

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see the drip in the bottom of the flexable conduit.

Initially thought that the water must be coming from somewhere higher, perhaps the roof, and landing on the conduit. But on closer inspection I saw that it was actually running down from where the conduit was going into the fuse box

Inside the fuse box

On opening the fuse box I found this:

The water is coming from inside the conduit.

A previous photo I took of the fuse box when it wasn't raining:

How

As our shed is lower than the house and the electrical conduit that runs underground would be higher than where that conduit is going into the fuse box. It must mean that water is entering the underground conduit at a point which is higher than the fuse box.

Safety

I looked up water in electrical conduits on the internet and found some discussions in the Whirlpool forumn about it. Most of the electricians reckon that most underground conduit has water in it. All you have to do is seal it off the end and the water shouldn't present a problem.

The electrical cable is meant to be waterproof and the conduit is just to protect the cable from mechanical damage.

Fix the water entering the shed

Based on the advice that seems to be coming from the electricians it doesn't seem to be a problem they're being water in the conduit from an electrical point of view. Suggestions were just to silicone up the end of the conduit to stop the water coming out of it and into to the shed.

So when it stops running and things dry out that's what I'll do