Recent content by chrisall

I don't need to ask how to wire up an outside socket correctly. I am a qualified and experienced electrical engineer and are more than capable ffs. The garage is fed from an RCD btw. Anyway, as you have pointed out PP is up to me, so thank you all for your words of advise, not one of you...

I think you are all missing the point. Which is safer? - to run an extension reel over the lawn when I want to mow the grass, or protect the cable in a plastic pipe and use an IP rated socket? Yes, plastic pipe is not 'proper' protection, but if I know that it's there I'm not going to stick...

Bury a plastic pipe in the garden - You want the plumbing area. No, I don't chrisall wrote: Run 3 core flex inside the pipe - How are you mechanically protecting this? The pipe !!! chrisall wrote: with a IP rated socket fitted at the garden end - What's this going to be used...

Suppose I did the following: Bury a plastic pipe in the garden, running from the garage, say around 3m in length. Run 3 core flex inside the pipe with a IP rated socket fitted at the garden end and a 13A plug top in the garage. Plug the flex into an existing socket in the garage when I want...