exterior

  1. M

    Can anyone recommend exterior led wall light, daylight and motion sensing with low/high light settings

    In the past I could find exterior wall lighta, mains powered, which would only come on at low intensity during hours of darkness and would switch to high intensity on detecting motion. The company I used no longer makes this model. Unbelieveably I am finding it near impossible to locate a like...
  2. J

    Exterior grouting with the wet weather. Discussion Thread

    Exterior grouting with the wet weather. Hi, I've laid an external porcelain patio on a sand and cement bed with ultrascape priming slurry. It was layed just under 5 weeks ago. I am wanting to grout the patio but am concerned about doing it when it is wet/not fully dry I wouldn't be concerned...
  3. B

    Quoizel exterior lights won't stay on, intermittent failures and flickering throughout circuit

    Hello and thank you in advance for your time in helping me troubleshoot my lights. I've added a video to show what my lights are doing. I have 4 Quoizel WVR8406EK lights on the front of my house and 2 in the back. They will intermittently go out. However I can unscrew the bulb and screw...
    • b_lloyd83
    • Thread
    • circuit exterior flickering intermittent lights won't
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Lighting Forum
  4. TexasDave

    Exterior conduit in hot, high humidity/wet geographic locations

    I've lived and worked my entire life in SoCal. Recently we moved to Southern Texas where there is a lot of rain (from a SoCal perspective) and constant high humidity. For exterior building runs, I mostly see PVC instead of EMT. Is this just people being cheap? Or should EMT be avoided in...
  5. J

    Running 100Amp service to an exterior garage

    I need to run electrical conduit through an existing foundation. here is the catch. The exterior of the foundation is clad in fieldstone and has a bluestone cap. Cutting into the stone or notching the cap is not an option (Wife!!!!). The simplest solution would be to drill the slab in front...
  6. G

    Exterior Light Box Depth

    hello, we recently had our siding replaced with hardie board. Where there was a wall mounted light the siding installer left 4" round hole that is slightly less than 1" deep. The old wire just comes out through a hole in the plywood sheathing and there is a 4" diameter x 1/2" thick electrical...
  7. S

    SWA needs to go from the exterior to the interior - put a junction box or not?

    I'm running SWA up the outside of a house and am wondering how best to make it off. It's going to come from the loft area, to the outside, down the house and then into a brick lean-to where it will be made off on some trunking after 500mm of run inside the lean-to. Since the armouring needs to...
  8. Z

    Exterior festoon lights - attached to interior light switch - how?

    We wanted to hang festoon lights in the garden and have them switched from inside the house and my builder (4 years ago) installed a '10A 3 Pin Weathertight Socket'* on the exterior wall of our house. Now we are (finally) trying to get the lights and all the festoon lights I can find have...
    • zapmenot
    • Thread
    • attached exterior exterior lighting light light switch lights outdoor socket switch
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  9. B

    Replacing light bulb in exterior up and down wall light

    Hi, I'm trying to replace the bulb in an exterior up and down wall light (photos attached). It doesn't seem to take GU10 bulbs. Has anyone ever come across this type of fitting before? Any advice would be much appreciated.
  10. J

    Any idea what this exterior box is for?

    Does anyone know what this box on the outside of my house might be for? It has four pipes going into the ground. The four pipes coming in all have a single blue, white, and green 12-gauge wire. All similar-colored wires are simply connected inside the box. I was hoping to run a new wire out of...
  11. R

    Ireland Exterior socket plus switch controlled light on existing spur

    I want to replace an existing sensor activated exterior light with a RCD socket and a switch controlled light. Is this OK to do. So interrupt existing wire with RCD. Connect top outlet of RCD to external light switch. Connect bulkhead light to light switch?
  12. L

    Open Hot on exterior GFCI outlet

    I have a 15A external GFCI that tripped after a heavy rain. It's on a 4 GFCI circuit (3 interior GFCI outlets and 1 exterior GFCI outlet) and the exterior GFCI outlet is the last one on the circuit. I'm able to reset the other 3 interior GFCI outlets without any problem but the exterior GFCI...
  13. mzimmers

    This can't be right

    Hi all - So, I've been in this house a few years, and am still in the process of cleaning up the "sillies" that the former owner did. The picture below is an exterior wall; if you can see, someone just poked Romex through a hole, and fed it into some conduit. What is the correct way for this...
  14. S

    Exterior Lights Dim Over Time

    Hello! About 2 years ago we purchased a house and replaced all the exterior lights. Over time all of them have dimmed to the point where you can barely see that it is on. The first one dimmed only a few days after we installed them and then over about the next 9 months the other 3 dimmed. We’ve...
  15. Lucien Nunes

    Recommendation needed for basic PIRs and exterior floods

    What's flavour of the month for low-cost PIRs / PIR LEDs / LED floods in the 10-20W range? I need a few for the museum store; can't blow too much cash on them but equally I don't want tat that fills with water after 3 weeks. Not sure if they will get linked together as they are quite widely...
  16. Z

    Old Work Box for Exterior Application

    I plan to recess an existing exterior outlet into a cement block w/ stucco wall. I'd like to use a junction box that is easy to install and won't require messy cementing in. Can I use a winged old work electrical box on an exterior wall and caulk/seal it in well? And then use a weatherproof over...
  17. F

    UK Exterior lighting

    Hi. I've recently built a 6 foot, block wall at the rear of my back garden, and want to install a couple of exterior lights to it. A public access path runs behind it, for access to the rear gardens on my row. Is it an acceptable practice to run a conduit along this side, passing through the...
  18. D

    MC cable into an exterior luminaire

    We recently were tasked with doing a pilot run for upgrading the exterior lighting at some retail locations. My guys removed existing wall packs and reinstalled new LED wall packs. There were a few different wiring methods used. Some of the existing fixtures were powered by MC coming through the...
  19. Dartlec

    Suggestions of decent but not expensive Class 2 exterior wall lanterns?

    Has anyone fitted a Class 2 exterior wall lantern recently that was good and not too expensive? Struggling to find any "drop" type in white. The story: Simple job for Friday afternoon I thought - swap two wall lanterns and add a new one. 50's Bungalow, but had consumer unit updated to a twin...
    • Dartlec
    • Thread
    • cheap class class 2 decent expensive exterior external lantern suggestions wall
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  20. M

    Exterior RCD protected IP66 double socket

    Hello. I need an outdoor socket and bought a ‘kit’ that allows a ‘soft wire’ IP66 socket. It is connected inside through the wall to an indoor socket by flex and a captive RCD plug. Unfortunately they sent a ‘hardwired’ unit which costs more but leaves no trailing leads inside. So I’d like to...
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