Correct LED bulb for outside use.
I know that outside lighting units using the old type of bulb wattage ere restricted to about 60 Watt due to the heat a higher wattage bulb would create in the restricted size of most outside lighting units. That is what I read on one of the units I have. I...
"Class 2" Spur off kitchen ring to IP 56 locked S/O. on outside wall of garden flat. Customer unhappy with unsatisfactory EICR. "It's always locked and I only use it to charge my laptop when I'm sitting at the garden table". I pointed out that it was wrong and I can't let it go, things change...
Hello. We bought a 1966 house recently. 1 outside light at our side door was old/broken so I bought a replacement. Before removing the light I used a voltage tester so I’d know which breaker to shut off. That didn’t work. I unscrewed the fixture from the wall, and found the light wired and...
I have soffit led lights that are controlled by a photo eye and a dimmer switch. Would like to change this and go to a smart switch that I can set to sunrise and sunset in my local. Need to be dimmable also. This will be in basement. What would be a good switch to get?
Have come accross a job where house ring run in T/E but has an old extension with earthed metal conduit used for sockets and only live and neutral single cores (of which are both black here).
The earth continuity is greater than 500 ohms and the live is faulty between 2 sockets and disconnected...
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Some advice required please.... I have a new build house and the electrician left an armoured supply into the garden, unterminated but weatherproofed outside and disconnected from a fused spur 13A in the house.
I'll be getting a qualified electrician to carry out all works and not...
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Recently came across an interesting situation whereby a client wanted some extra sockets and lights in the garden. The current lights are fed from a spur run in 2.5mm SWA and buried for approx 3m across a lawn to existing installation of two single sockets and some floods in the borders...
Hello, Thanks for reading. I want to make an improved version of the small solar powered dandelion lights you can purchase as I feel these are too small, and won't work very well in the UK winter months when its not very bright in the daytime.
However, I'm stuck on deciding what type of wire...
My daughter has ground floor flat, there are four flats on each floor. The consumer Units for each flat are located just outside each flat in the communal hall way, Is this against the Regulations?
Hello. I am thinking of fitting an outside weatherproof socket unit. I will run the cable back through the wall via a surface mounted box to a kitchen socket where it will be plugged in with a 13 amp fuse. I will use 2.5mm square cable and trunking. The kitchen socket is already covered by...
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customer had installed a 10m awning that is secured to a very substantial 6” box steel frame, concreted in either end - large goal post if you will. It is fitted on the garden patio, just outside the entrence to his living area accesd by sliding doors. The motor is a low current single...
Outside light wired in 0.5mm flex but protected by a 3amp fuse. A 0.5mm flex max is 3A current carrying capacity, would you give that a code for an EICR? Cable size is small but it’s protected by the fuse, was thinking maybe a C3 due to it being a flex outside
Hello, I want to connect a hot tub outside on the patio. It is a plug and play with a standard 13 amp plug. It is around 10m away from the house. I have been told it draws around 7 amps when all equipment turned on. Is it best to connect an outside socket somewhere near using 2.5mm twin and...
I will be using an electrician but I will have to buy the fixtures. The base plate for most new Flood Lights are small 3 - 4 inches and and don't appear to be durable . Old one is about 5 inches and metal . I need a lot of light down my driveway. Will there be any problems using a GE 3000...
Hi there I am new to this forum. I am a single mum and trying to do any jobs around the house myself so if the advice is I need a professional then let me know. I moved into this house 2 years ago and have never got to the bottom or root of my outside light. It has a sensor and seems to be...
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PVC Conduit install outside, for a socket and this socket is supplying a lazy spa hot tub plug and play thing. Conduit is top entry into socket, I can see they have used conduit cement at joints and also installed a flat plastic IP washer at the top entry where the conduit adaptor...
Hello. How do you replace an optima xm6 outside bell box. What would be a reasonable replacement and what connections would i find in the box.
Thank you for your help.
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So I want to install some outdoor uplights running along the bottom of my house sitting low to ground & to be operated via a light switch from indoors.
Can this be done in 1.5mm / 1.5mm flex clipped around low to each light or does it have to all be done In SWA?
Thanks!
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I understand that you can’t spur of off a spur , ideally adding sockets would best be done by splitting the ring and completing it. Currently have an outside socket on the back of the house which won’t be used at all but we have a decking area further up the garden which I want to add 2...
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