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Hi

at my dad's house he has an outdoor lantern type light on the wall next to the front door that is currently wired in twin and earth tacked all along the outside wall. I want to hide the cable and drilling through to inside seems best.

If I drill through the back of the fitting in to the house it would bring me out in the kitchen about 1m down from the ceiling..

Is it then acceptable to chase up the wall in to the ceiling to then route the cable back to the consumer unit? I was always told you had to have an accessory suce as a switch in order to keep the cable within a safe zone.

Any help would be great!
 
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It should have a fused switch. If it ever developed a fault it would blow the fuse and not trip at the consumer unit. As it's wired currently any fault could mean loss of internal power from whatever it's fed from, perhaps currently a lighting circuit?

If you're going to chase the wall add a back box and fcu then reroute to c.u.
 
Has the board got RCD protection? You're quite right it being in the safe zone though it must also have adequate protection if it's likely to be drilled into etc...

So one of the following: 50mm Deep, have earthed armouring or be enclosed in Earthed conduit if it doesn't,

or be provided with mechanical protection such as capping if it does.
 
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perhaps but you'd need to be an idiot to use a masonry drill to penetrate it, so on second thoughts you're quite right!
 
winston1 said:
But they are not meant to be and to do so is pointless for the reason I explained.

Don’t argue for the sake of it.
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Mate, it’s you that added this falsehood. You did this to get a reaction.

As in many times in the past, you have wheeled out your personal view and promoted it as fact.
The FACT is that the Wiring Regulations, a British Standard, specifically states that a number of devices may be connected to lighting circuits. These devices include BS1363 socket outlets and fused connection units. That is the FACT. If that is against the way you think things should be organised then I suggest you lobby IET to have the standard changed.
until you have achieved that unlikely goal, go and park your hobby horse somewhere else.
 
winston1 said:
No you fixed nothing, because there was nothing to fix.
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Only trying to keep you on the right side of the mods. You are not supposed to be promoting untruths about the regulations. You seem to want to persist in these misleading statements though.

It might be useful if you actually purchased a copy of BS7671 and read and understood it. It might save you from these embarrasing errors.
 
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