I've just discovered that the outside security light (a double spotlight with PIR) at the back of my house has been wired to the upstairs ring main. It's mounted about 12ft up the back wall and is supplied by a cable running off a double socket in the back bedroom, and then out through the wall.
I only found out because I had the downstairs lighting circuit off to do some other work, nipped out the back for a break and realised the light was still coming on.
The light itself is well up out of harms way but has a master switch just inside the back door. In order to make this safe what are my options please? To take a feed from the ground floor lighting circuit would involve a lot of destruction of decorations etc. All I can think of is to fit a switched FCU with a 3A fuse alongside the existing double socket and take the power from there.
Or is there another way of doing it?
I only found out because I had the downstairs lighting circuit off to do some other work, nipped out the back for a break and realised the light was still coming on.
The light itself is well up out of harms way but has a master switch just inside the back door. In order to make this safe what are my options please? To take a feed from the ground floor lighting circuit would involve a lot of destruction of decorations etc. All I can think of is to fit a switched FCU with a 3A fuse alongside the existing double socket and take the power from there.
Or is there another way of doing it?