Morning all,
I have a query regarding the replacement of an outside light which I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
I am familiar with Part P but I deem this to be a replacement of an existing external light - which a section in the ODPM site advises you can do.
At the moment, there is a 2G light switch in our hallway, of which one of the switches has a cable which basically runs towards supplying an outside light (but it not connected to anything).
This is connected to the lighting circuit.
This has been re-directed to serve a light in the porch which was never fitted.
Consequently, the outside light currently is supplied from a mains plug in the garage.
Theoretically, I would have thought this would be a simple thing to change so that the outside light is served by the lighting circuit in the hallway which it looks like it was designed to do (this would involve pulling the cable back through to the garage from the porch and directing it back through the front of the house to supply the outside light) - and do away with having a porch light which we don't want.
However, the light instructions advise that it must be connected to a fused switched spur from the ring main. I am already running a fused non-switched spur from the only mains socket in the adjacent garage now to supply an intruder alarm, and as I understand it, it is not good practice to run another from it.
Is there any reason why I cannot connect this lamp onto the legacy (the house is 10 years old) cabling supplied from the lighting circuit (i.e. so the hallway switch can turn it on and off)?
I can only assume the reason for a fused switched spur is for safety but we have a CU with RCD on the lighting circuit...?
Many thanks,
John.
I have a query regarding the replacement of an outside light which I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
I am familiar with Part P but I deem this to be a replacement of an existing external light - which a section in the ODPM site advises you can do.
At the moment, there is a 2G light switch in our hallway, of which one of the switches has a cable which basically runs towards supplying an outside light (but it not connected to anything).
This is connected to the lighting circuit.
This has been re-directed to serve a light in the porch which was never fitted.
Consequently, the outside light currently is supplied from a mains plug in the garage.
Theoretically, I would have thought this would be a simple thing to change so that the outside light is served by the lighting circuit in the hallway which it looks like it was designed to do (this would involve pulling the cable back through to the garage from the porch and directing it back through the front of the house to supply the outside light) - and do away with having a porch light which we don't want.
However, the light instructions advise that it must be connected to a fused switched spur from the ring main. I am already running a fused non-switched spur from the only mains socket in the adjacent garage now to supply an intruder alarm, and as I understand it, it is not good practice to run another from it.
Is there any reason why I cannot connect this lamp onto the legacy (the house is 10 years old) cabling supplied from the lighting circuit (i.e. so the hallway switch can turn it on and off)?
I can only assume the reason for a fused switched spur is for safety but we have a CU with RCD on the lighting circuit...?
Many thanks,
John.