Extending outdoor socket to another

[drnh]

Hi all

I'd like some advice on extending from a curent outdoor socket to add another one elsewhere on the house.

Is this a fairly easy thing to do?

Not taken the socket off to see how its wired, thought i'd ask a little advice first.

Had a quote from an electirician but quoted me £150 per meter for armoured cable as i originally wanted it to run along side the house in the ground...seemed a crazy price to me for cable!!

Might just do it myself with conduit along the wall.

Thanks very much guys

Daz

 

[ricicle]

Is there not another internal socket that you could spur through the wall from near to the required location ?

 

[JohnW2]

Had a quote from an electirician but quoted me £150 per meter for armoured cable as i originally wanted it to run along side the house in the ground...seemed a crazy price to me for cable!!

There has clearly been an error or misunderstanding there! If this figure related just to the cost of the cable, then I suspect he may well have meant £1.50 per metre for the armoured cable - I suggest you ask him for clarification!

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Or maybe it was £150/m including digging, backfilling and making good the surface:

wanted it to run along side the house in the ground

 

[Iggifer]

that was what I was thinking, but there's no way you could justify £750 for a 5m run of SWA.

FWIW I just joined my two outdoor sockets with a short length of conduit - its only about 15cm but it does the job nicely.

 

[JohnW2]

Or maybe it was £150/m including digging, backfilling and making good the surface:

I did consider that possibility (hence the qualification in what I wrote), but, even on that basis, the figure seemed hard to believe!

Kind Regards, John

 

[sparkwright]

Is there not another internal socket that you could spur through the wall from near to the required location ?

Good advice.

This may prevent a lot of work and unsightly wiring.

The existing outdoor socket may well already be a spur - as outside sockets very often are extras that have been added. So you need to look at this.

I prefer not to use plastic 20 mm conduit outside as it sags, gets brittle, gets broken, and has to be watertight - unless it's erected in a manner where water cannot enter the sockets.


Ricicle's idea may be the answer.