Hi, after a recent burglary I went into B&Q and bought a couple of 120 watt halogen floodlights to mount to an external wall and light up my relatively small back yard.
Plan is to wall mount them, drill into the house through a wall and find some electricity inside to wire them up to. Upstairs landing, very near to where the cable could be fed into the house, there is a three pin socket I use once in a blue moon to plug the vacuum cleaner into.
Can I just take the front off that, shove a cable into the holes along with the mains cable coming in, run that to a light switch which I could wall mount nearby, then run a cable from that through the wall to the outside lamps? Distance between the existing switch and the new light switch would be no more than about three feet.
If that's not allowed can I just stick a three pin plug onto the end of the cable attached to the lights and plug them into the existing socket just like any other electrical appliance?
Many thanks.
Plan is to wall mount them, drill into the house through a wall and find some electricity inside to wire them up to. Upstairs landing, very near to where the cable could be fed into the house, there is a three pin socket I use once in a blue moon to plug the vacuum cleaner into.
Can I just take the front off that, shove a cable into the holes along with the mains cable coming in, run that to a light switch which I could wall mount nearby, then run a cable from that through the wall to the outside lamps? Distance between the existing switch and the new light switch would be no more than about three feet.
If that's not allowed can I just stick a three pin plug onto the end of the cable attached to the lights and plug them into the existing socket just like any other electrical appliance?
Many thanks.