Drilling through an external wall

[rfears]

Excuse ignorance but here goes anyway.

I want to take a cable (2.5 T&E) through an external wall. Lets assume its a normal cavity wall.

My instinct would be to drill down from inside to outside (or up from outside to inside) to minimise damp ingress -maybe 10 or 15 degrees.

I would then want to fix conduit to the outside to guide my T&E to it's ultimate destination.

Two questions:

1. is my instinct right (i.e. angle through wall) or is there a BR recommending against this?

2. whatever the orientation of the hole is there a commonly available conduit component that I can fix over the hole to take the cable into the rest of the conduit run?, and if so how do I waterproof it to minimise damp ingress into the wall? (OK, technically that's 3 questions)

Thanks

Rick.

 

[rfears]

If it was an MK socket they always confuse me as it says top on bottom as well as top or is it top , when i drill through walls i use off cuts of conduit and sleeve the hole 2 reasons for this one it protects the cable and to makes it so much easier to thread the cable through and three uses all the off cuts up so saves money and protects the enviroment and i only said two reasons and gave three lol its the beer from the other thread lol

so you can afford a 20mm drill bit, wish I could

for that matter wish I had a drill that would last long enough to go through a wall ...

beer and depression setting in - goodnight all

 

[Darkwood]

Two questions:

1. is my instinct right (i.e. angle through wall) or is there a BR recommending against this?

2. whatever the orientation of the hole is there a commonly available conduit component that I can fix over the hole to take the cable into the rest of the conduit run?, and if so how do I waterproof it to minimise damp ingress into the wall? (OK, technically that's 3 questions)

Thanks

Rick.

Sorry rick you OP made me chuckle as technically there are 4 questions but you missed a question mark out on your first query..... Is my instinct right?
No offense intended just brought a smile

 

[rfears]

Sorry rick you OP made me chuckle as technically there are 4 questions but you missed a question mark out on your first query..... Is my instinct right?
No offense intended just brought a smile

No offense taken mate, you are quite correct