External Socket Setup

Thing id Scooby came here to ask how to do it, what is so hard about explaining that rather than just fall back on the usual get an electrician in method?
This is a person who:

1) Thinks that "the usual twin and earth" is suitable for outside use.

2) Thinks that permanently installed sockets plugged in at the house end constitutes good workmanship.

3) Knows so little about socket circuits that he has to ask how to connect a 2nd to a 1st.

4) Has a grasp of general electrical principles which leads him to say something like "if i was to do a more permanent solution i would have to consider things like parallel circuits to prevent dilution of the power".


He cannot possibly learn all of the things he actually needs to know just by asking random questions here about things he thinks he needs to know about, there will be things he needs to know which he has no idea even exist. And we can't possibly tell him how to simply do the job for two reasons:

1) Nobody should ever carry out electrical work on the basis of "insert this wire into that hole" without knowing why - a full and genuine understanding is essential, and we must not encourage otherwise.

2) Given the obvious poor and shaky knowledge he has we can't take anything for granted about what he might do.
 
Whatever you attempt make sure the circuit has a 30mA RCD on it. The correct way is to use armoured cable, concentric cable or PVC cable with the same level of mechanical protection as armoured with proper glands and installed within the correct depth (1.5 feet), sand covering the cable, "electric cable below" indicator tape then back filled
 

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