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Just moved house and there are 4x elderly CFL exterior lights on the side of my house to illuminate the side path, all running through galv conduit. all the lights are broken/rusted, the bulbs have clearly long since blown.
I want to replace the setup and remove the conduit as it’s bloody hideous (it’s a grade 2 listed brick house and the galv conduit looks terrible). I did look at finding conduit bulkhead lights that allow in/out conduit for an easy life/swap but they seem very rare, and to get the right diameter of light is tricky as the old ones are massive 300mm discs and I’ll end up with gaps between conduit end and light fitting!
anyway I’m hoping to replace the lot, assuming I can simply clip wiring to the wall (ideally grey) instead of using the conduit to blend it into the mortar of the bricks. Is this ok? Do I need to use SWA (it’ll be mounted at waist height approx, brick all the way). Assuming 1.5mm twin and earth is ok?
Wanted to check what wire should I use, and if conduit is really necessary. (it will power 5x led lights only, though oddly there is also a waterproof timer power socket at the end of the daisy chain, that I guess was used to power xmas lights, (naughty naughty I know to have a socket on a light run, as sure enough the time I plugged in a big sander, POP the breaker went). Whole setup is on a 6A RCD also.
i’m planning on leaving the waterproof socket if on the offchance I want to plug in some Xmas lights.
thanks all
TLTR: what wire to go on exterior brick wall for lights?
‘Do I need to use conduit?
I want to replace the setup and remove the conduit as it’s bloody hideous (it’s a grade 2 listed brick house and the galv conduit looks terrible). I did look at finding conduit bulkhead lights that allow in/out conduit for an easy life/swap but they seem very rare, and to get the right diameter of light is tricky as the old ones are massive 300mm discs and I’ll end up with gaps between conduit end and light fitting!
anyway I’m hoping to replace the lot, assuming I can simply clip wiring to the wall (ideally grey) instead of using the conduit to blend it into the mortar of the bricks. Is this ok? Do I need to use SWA (it’ll be mounted at waist height approx, brick all the way). Assuming 1.5mm twin and earth is ok?
Wanted to check what wire should I use, and if conduit is really necessary. (it will power 5x led lights only, though oddly there is also a waterproof timer power socket at the end of the daisy chain, that I guess was used to power xmas lights, (naughty naughty I know to have a socket on a light run, as sure enough the time I plugged in a big sander, POP the breaker went). Whole setup is on a 6A RCD also.
i’m planning on leaving the waterproof socket if on the offchance I want to plug in some Xmas lights.
thanks all
TLTR: what wire to go on exterior brick wall for lights?
‘Do I need to use conduit?
