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I have a hybrid car and I’m trying to install a socket outdoors. I’m on E7 and have storage heaters on their own circuits, can I make a little T junction within a back box like so and connect that round the corner to an external EV-rated socket? Circuit is 16A, storage heater does not...
We have an outdoor socket that is hard wired into the ground floor power circuit and protected with an rcd in the consumer unit.
I now plan to add a spur from this outside socket via armoured cable to a new socket further down the garden.
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Should we install a double pole switch on this...
I see a lot more IP44 options, nominally OK for outdoor use (no special area, etc) but wondered if they are OK in practice?
Also if anyone has the good, the bad, and the ugly of related brands.
I guess there are a thousand question like this, but I couldn't quite get if I can do this myself or need an electrician.
I have a garage separated from the house that has it's own supply (a big armoured cable that comes from the house) that goes into a 10A RCBO (exactly this guy: GE DP100...
Is it ok to control an outdoor double socket with a programmable switched timer - the type usually used for lighting? The sockets are for a pond pump and filter which use c 35w while the timer switch wd be mounted in a shed and on a 6a mcb. My sparky didn’t sound concerned - he basically said...
Hi, I am a basic DIY'er, with basic electrical skills, NB, I can change a plug/fuse, change a ceiling light fitting, change a socket face plate, install a ceiling fan, immersion heater, extractor fan, etc.
I already have one external outdoor weatherproof IP66 double socket at one end of my...
Hi Guys,
Wondering if someone can advise me if i can do the following. I just want the wiring to be neat and tidy and not have so many outside, also happy to hear your recommendations of course!
RCD FCU to Outdoor Double Socket using 2.5mm >
From Outdoor Socket to another FCU with 3amp fuse...
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I’ve recently moved into my new home. I’ve taken down a conservatory and bagged up the existing indoor socket that is now exposed to the elements.
I’ve bought an outdoor socket and I’m looking to simply replace the existing one, using the existing wires. There isn’t a recess...
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...
I have bought some net led lights that are permanently installed outside.
The problem is, I don't have an outdoor socket. And the socket in the shed is too far away.
I can buy an extension to the low voltage lead, for around £10 delivered, but I'd ideally like to plug it in outside.
All the...
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I’m looking at adding an external socket on my house. I have a external junction box which is fed from the main consumer unit, in the junction box is a connector block which feeds a SWA cable which goes under my patio to my garage. In the garage is a smaller consumer unit which has a socket...
Need a smart looking outdoor socket on a post, either single or double.
Needs to be lockable.
Best I could find is the Rolec camping site pillars, but they are too big and in your face (and they are not lockable)
It is for a disabled buggy charging point, but it will be near the front of a new...
Anyone have a go to outdoor socket brand for quality / reliability? Looking to revamp a customers garden socket which funnily enough stopped working as it was attached to the side some decking and was then buried in soil from the adjacent flowerbed ?. Also, are there any ranges that have a...
The home buyer surveyor recommended an EICR on a property I intend to purchase, because the sellers made some changes to circuits. The house is built in 1973/74 and had a garage conversion into an office and a wall removed to convert the kitchen and dining room into an open plan kitchen in...
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I am in the process of having some garden renovations done and would like to have an additional outdoor socket installed. I have a Cabin in the garden; a 10mm cable runs from the DB on a 32a RCBO up to an exterior Wiska box, where it connects to a SWA and runs underground to the cabin...
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In my apartment I want to put an outdoor socket on the balcony. I am thinking of spurring of a socket that is directly behind it (indoor) which is in a ring circuit and is RCD protected at the consumer unit, my plan would be to drill directly out the back of of the indoor socket back box...
A range of weatherproof outdoor switches with a choice to install either our 10AX MiniGrid or 20AX GridPro Modules.
Building on Scolmore’s reputation for supplying quick and flexible solutions, the IP66 rated weatherproof socket and switch enclosures offer users a single fix installation - with...
I am going to put a socket into some brickwork surrounding a BBQ area. Now all the external sockets I have seen are all surface ones about 3 inches deep this sort of skt.
Now I thought of using the type of socket one gets on the outside wall of a caravan like this which will sit more flush to...
Hi guys adding and outdoor socket for a hot tub just thinking should I come off the socket ring as there is a socket on the other side of the wall or would it be better to add fused spur and add the out door socket that way so it could be turned off and on ??
i had an electrician out and they fitted a switched fused spur on to an existing double gang socket in my kitchen to run power out to my garage.
At a later date another electrician then ran another outdoor socket off of the double gang socket.
I'm now having some new patio doors installed and...
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