Outdoor Socket from Fused Washing Maching Spur?

[HenryGregory]

You could add inside sockets from the fused spur as well although you would be limited as to what you could power from it.

Could you not replace the FCU with a single 3 pin socket, then at the washing machine end here:

Could you drill through and install an outdoor double but with a RCD? Like this.

I guess the washing machine socket would no longer have a fuse as the FCU would be gone and replaced with a 3 pin plug.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I guess the washing machine socket would no longer have a fuse as the FCU would be gone and replaced with a 3 pin plug.

Yes, sort of.

As it is now, the fuse is unnecessary but if you add a socket outside connected to the WM socket then the fuse will be needed.



Not sure how all the suggestions are intended to help; you could do all sorts of things.

 

[HenryGregory]

Yes, sort of.

As it is now, the fuse is unnecessary but if you add a socket outside connected to the WM socket then the fuse will be needed.



Not sure how all the suggestions are intended to help; you could do all sorts of things.

Thanks, just good to know what is possible really. Would be really good to have a 3 pin socket above worktop where the FCU currently is as occasionally you might want to use a food mixer or similar and there are absoloutely no sockets in that area. I wonder if this was done as it is near the kitchen sink maybe, but not the basin end, just the drying end. Will get a pic of the FCU next time I am in the kitchen and I remember!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

In the kitchen, I can see there is a fused spur with the label "Washing Machine" on the plastic. It goes to this socket:

If it's a fused spur, then the socket below, will not be on the ring, so out the back of the socket, is not a good choice. If the fused spur is on the ring.

Any outdoor socket, would be best if it were supplied from it's own fused spur, and a double pole one too - so in case of RCD/RCBO tripping, the outdoor section can more easily be isolated.