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i am about to install some garden electrics, just to explain, I am a Charted Electrical Engineer but am now retired and not fully up to date with the IEE regs. I would ask it what I propose installing would meet with the present regulations for Electrical Certification.
I want a couple of external Garden sockets and a three or four wall lights around my garden, What I propose doing is installing a 13A Switched Fused Spur with indicator light off the House Socket ring main and mount the fused Spur inside the house. Then taking a 2.5 sq mm Steel Wire Armoured cable from the back of this fused Spur directly through the cavity wall, and sink the cable 30cm into the ground across a pathway then run the SWA cable 10 yards along a fence and terminate into a weatherproof double 13A socket. Then take a second SWA cable from these sockets to a Weatherproof 3A Switched Fused Spur to supply four LED wall lights. I intend to use 1sq mm 'SY' cable for the wall lights as this will give a bit of mechanical protection to this cable as it will run above ground Clipped to the back of the garden fence.
The 13A internal Switched fused Spur will be used to isolate the external electrics and the 3A Switched fuse spur used to operate the external lights. This arrangement will give fused discrimination for the Sockets and lighting circuits.
Would this arrangement be legally acceptable and satisfy for Electrical Certification?
I would appreciate any comments from any 'Sparkies' out there.
I want a couple of external Garden sockets and a three or four wall lights around my garden, What I propose doing is installing a 13A Switched Fused Spur with indicator light off the House Socket ring main and mount the fused Spur inside the house. Then taking a 2.5 sq mm Steel Wire Armoured cable from the back of this fused Spur directly through the cavity wall, and sink the cable 30cm into the ground across a pathway then run the SWA cable 10 yards along a fence and terminate into a weatherproof double 13A socket. Then take a second SWA cable from these sockets to a Weatherproof 3A Switched Fused Spur to supply four LED wall lights. I intend to use 1sq mm 'SY' cable for the wall lights as this will give a bit of mechanical protection to this cable as it will run above ground Clipped to the back of the garden fence.
The 13A internal Switched fused Spur will be used to isolate the external electrics and the 3A Switched fuse spur used to operate the external lights. This arrangement will give fused discrimination for the Sockets and lighting circuits.
Would this arrangement be legally acceptable and satisfy for Electrical Certification?
I would appreciate any comments from any 'Sparkies' out there.