Garden lights

[Passepartout]

In answer to the last post if I found a way to use an extension lead would this overcome the fixed electrical wording bit.How does everyone else manage when their gardens are lit light Blackpool.

 

[ELZ4742]

and just to add a bit to BAS' post...

The following types of work are non-notifiable:

•Replacing accessories such as socket-outlets, control switches and ceiling roses
•Replacing the cable for a single circuit only, where damaged, for example, by fire, rodent or impact (1.)
•Re-fixing or replacing the enclosures of existing installation components (2.)
•Providing mechanical protection to existing fixed installations (3.)
•Installing or upgrading main or supplementary equipotential bonding (4.)
•Work that is not in a kitchen or special location and does not involve a special installation (5.) and consists of:
◦Adding lighting points (light fittings and switches) to an existing circuit (6.)
◦Adding socket-outlets and fused spurs to an existing ring or radial circuit (6.)

 

[Passepartout]

So if not from the kitchen lights I could use the one in the back bedroom and out the window down the wall,simples.

 

[WabbitPoo]

With respect, you seem to have made up your mind anyway, so why ask for advice?

You shold not be tapping into a lighting circuit, so no-one is able to give you the answer you appear to want.

Just my tuppence.

 

[Passepartout]

With respect to the last poster I have garnered enough information from various respondents to be able to proceed or not.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

How does everyone else manage when their gardens are lit light Blackpool.

They break the law.

Like you are going to do.

Simples.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

This is absolutely correct:

Actually, Part P (in fact all of the Building Regulations) applies to any work whatsoever on fixed electrical cables or fixed electrical equipment located on the consumer’s side of the electricity supply meter which operate at low or extra-low voltage and are—
(a) in or attached to a dwelling;
(b) in the common parts of a building serving one or more dwellings, but excluding power supplies to lifts;
(c) in a building that receives its electricity from a source located within or shared with a dwelling; or
(d) in a garden or in or on land associated with a building where the electricity is from a source located within or shared with a dwelling.

most of it is a verbatim quote from the actual law.

 

[bernardgreen]

How does everyone else manage when their gardens are lit light Blackpool.

They break the law. Like you are going to do.
Simples.

Not all break the law ( or rather regulations ).

Using a RCD protected socket in the garage to feed the transformers that supply Extra low voltage to the lights in the garden is safe and legal.

Hanging an extension lead out of the window and wrapping a polythene bag around the socket at the end of the extension lead where the 230 volt light string is plugged in is stupid and dangerous.

 

[Passepartout]

How about if I replace a plug on an extention lead with a male bayonet plug which I could then put into a bayonet splitter which would be plugged into the female pendant. Then I wouldn't be touching the hardwiring at all.

I could then plug an RCD extention into this extention (all indoors) and then feed my lights off this. Would this cover all bases and keep it legal?

 

[bernardgreen]

Just go and buy some of these and solve the problem with complete safety

http://tinyurl.com/32lkdrd

 

[riveralt]

You might be better off going for this arrangement.

http://www.xmasdirect.co.uk/battery-lights?utm_nooverride=1&gclid=CITs2a7Ut6UCFUhO4QodOFQoYQ

 

[JohnnyG]

Just go and buy some of these and solve the problem with complete safety

http://tinyurl.com/32lkdrd[/QUOTE]
Is that torch a wind up?

 

[WabbitPoo]

With respect to the last poster I have garnered enough information from various respondents to be able to proceed or not.

You say that, yet you still seek answers. Odd.

 

[Passepartout]

With respect to the last poster I have garnered enough information from various respondents to be able to proceed or not.

You say that, yet you still seek answers. Odd.

Not really odd - I have decided that it would be unwise to tap into any hardwired circuit based on the information gleaned especially by someone quoting tracts of the law to me. My subsequent question was a new line of enquiry which seems to be a successful compromise to all points made while still allowing me to use that kitchen light.

Thank you for your technical input though.

 

[holmslaw]

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