Hi All
Working out the best way to get my external lighting circuit connected.
I have a single gang socket in the kitchen for the washing machine, under the worktop. This is unswitched at the socket, but instead there is a fused switch elsewhere on the wall. My current thought process is:
1/ Replace single gang socket with single->double gang socket. Only switched models are available, this shouldn't be a problem.
2/ Place an IP rated double switched socket with a integrated RCD on the outside of the house. Run 1.5mm flex (<1m run) from this, through the wall (to inside) to a plug, which plugs into the newly spare socket.
3/ Run a <0.5m length of outdoor / arctic flex with a plug on the end from a junction box next to the outdoor socket.
4/ From this junction box, SWA armoured cable and glands into the garden.
I know this isn't as 'clean' as it could be, but it allows a RCD protected outdoor power point with the reset function on the outside. The house has been rewired in recent years so the CU has a RCD in it, though I am uncertain which circuits are protected. If protection extends to the kitchen sockets, do I need seperate RCD protection?
The kitchen sockets have their own circuit on the CU. Only the smoke detectors and upstairs / downstairs lighting circuits sit to the right of the RCD, so I presume everything else is protected that sits to the left.
Thanks in advance
Working out the best way to get my external lighting circuit connected.
I have a single gang socket in the kitchen for the washing machine, under the worktop. This is unswitched at the socket, but instead there is a fused switch elsewhere on the wall. My current thought process is:
1/ Replace single gang socket with single->double gang socket. Only switched models are available, this shouldn't be a problem.
2/ Place an IP rated double switched socket with a integrated RCD on the outside of the house. Run 1.5mm flex (<1m run) from this, through the wall (to inside) to a plug, which plugs into the newly spare socket.
3/ Run a <0.5m length of outdoor / arctic flex with a plug on the end from a junction box next to the outdoor socket.
4/ From this junction box, SWA armoured cable and glands into the garden.
I know this isn't as 'clean' as it could be, but it allows a RCD protected outdoor power point with the reset function on the outside. The house has been rewired in recent years so the CU has a RCD in it, though I am uncertain which circuits are protected. If protection extends to the kitchen sockets, do I need seperate RCD protection?
The kitchen sockets have their own circuit on the CU. Only the smoke detectors and upstairs / downstairs lighting circuits sit to the right of the RCD, so I presume everything else is protected that sits to the left.
Thanks in advance