Hope this is the right forum for this ...
I've 'inherited' the following electrical set-up for a garden pond pump and filter. I know, instinctively that it's wrong but can anyone tell me how wrong it is and what would need to be done to make it safe?
ok, here goes ...
Armoured cable leaves the back of the house (from a box on the internal wall) and disappears under a paved area and lawn. It reappears under a deck and goes into a round, plastic, grey 'connector' of some type.
Cable, unarmoured, comes out of the other side of this round connector and goes (still under the deck) into the back of a 'box' which is fitted to the facing board of the deck ... front of the box is on the outwards facing sde of the deck board ..
the box has two switches (one for pump, one for filter) and two plug sockets (switches and sockets are the 'proper' external variety AFAIK)
a cable runs from one of the switches to the pond pump (there is about three inches of cable visible as the deck almost overhangs the pond at that point) ... another cable (not armoured or protected) runs from the other switch all the way under the deck in a round about fashion and up behind a waterfall into the filter ...
anyone tell me what needs to be done to make this set-up safe or, at least, safer???
TIA
I've 'inherited' the following electrical set-up for a garden pond pump and filter. I know, instinctively that it's wrong but can anyone tell me how wrong it is and what would need to be done to make it safe?
ok, here goes ...
Armoured cable leaves the back of the house (from a box on the internal wall) and disappears under a paved area and lawn. It reappears under a deck and goes into a round, plastic, grey 'connector' of some type.
Cable, unarmoured, comes out of the other side of this round connector and goes (still under the deck) into the back of a 'box' which is fitted to the facing board of the deck ... front of the box is on the outwards facing sde of the deck board ..
the box has two switches (one for pump, one for filter) and two plug sockets (switches and sockets are the 'proper' external variety AFAIK)
a cable runs from one of the switches to the pond pump (there is about three inches of cable visible as the deck almost overhangs the pond at that point) ... another cable (not armoured or protected) runs from the other switch all the way under the deck in a round about fashion and up behind a waterfall into the filter ...
anyone tell me what needs to be done to make this set-up safe or, at least, safer???
TIA