Cables and Zones

[Thomas Connolly]

Hi Gents,
Probably a very simple answer but I'm installing an outside light on a small porch The switch being just inside the door.
The light however, is about 600ml from the door on the outside, so if I drill straight through from the outside to the inside, once inside, the cable exit point straight in to the back of the light outside is going to be out of the zones.

I was just wondering how people overcome this issue? I thought about drilling at an angle so that when the hole comes through to the inside, it is by the switch but I think I'll need either x-ray vision or a hell of a lot of luck, or even both, to pull this off close enough to the switch to be within a 'zone'

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[DPG]

Safe zone is only formed by an accessory for cables serving that accessory...so the socket doesnt comply to the letter of the regs..

Could you quote the reg number for this.

 

[Bellendian]

No....book in the office. However, I do recall looking it up some years back and realising that the master of pedantry was correct!

 

[Toneyz]

Its a solution to a problem, never said it was perfect.

Picky sod

I am not a Picky sod and every method that has been posted is a way of making the situation compliant it is just not aesthetically pleasing for a random blank plate being there and I don't think it would be acceptable I know it would 100% be not in a new build.