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Allright guys, just wanted to pick your brains on this matter. Im putting an external light in a back garden. The wall that i need to go through is the kitchen wall but of course its fully tiled from units to ceiling. My only access out without making a mess is through the back of a two gang socket into the garden. This is not a problem but my lighting cable is coming into the socket and i dont want the light running off the ring main. The only thing i can think of is fitting a MK switch. I know you used to be able to get the 13 amp fused modules for the grids. I was hoping to take the ring into the load side of the fuse and then through a switch module to the light. Then it would just be a blank module for the other way. Ive been offshore for the last few years so im unsure of what products are now available. Any ideas or different ways to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers :confused:
 
How high is the light outdoors?? If it isnt to low could you pull a floor board up above the kitchen and drill out though there and run the cable down the short distance. Other than that it like you said spur a switched fuse spur off the kitcen ring.

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Ive looked there allready, real wood floors upstairs. Fused spur is fine but its the fact that its a two gang box where im going through. Been out of the game for a few years and the MK grid was the only thing i could think of for a two gang box. Why do people think of electrical work last after decorating?

Cheers anyway!
 
Don,t tell anyone on here because its not regs, and we don,t do these things, but at the side of the double socket in the kitchen, drill with a small masonery sds bit the tile and sink a 1x gang box with a sw/fused spur off the ring main, then knock one of the knock outs out of the back of the box, and drill through into cavity of house, go outside and drill hole into cavity from outside and rod a piece of white 3core fp down to the spur.
Now Hammy i haven,t sent you this and will deny all knowledge of it as we don,t run cables in cavities, DO WE BOYS AND GIRLS.
 

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