Okay, so at the back of our house, there is a socket that is on the RCD, when we had our kitchen redone to allow my wheelchair access, they moved the oven but kept the socket, this is now just a on/off switch socket. this is a still all connected up, we just have security lights up now.
i have been thinking but not asked mum yet, but I believe we could add an outdoor weather socket box, I can then plug in my extension lead to this plug when I want power to this area. Otherwise I can reel in the lead and act as if nothing was there.
I am extremely unlikely to do any welding often, so do I want the thicker 2.5mm or would the 1.5mm be good enough but have a 2.5mm cable in my electrical storage box for those rare times I would use the welder?
I know the socket that holds the outdoor lights are definitely connected to the main board, as about 2 months ago, our power blew due to a damaged oven socket the new one, they only put in about a year ago as it wasn’t up to code or something like that, but this new switch wouldn’t turn off, but as it was broken, and it blew the main breaker, we had no power, the ”new socket“ fused the plastic together so it was impossible to turn off.
we called the house people, who said… if we need power, open the board breaker, connect an extension lead to the board, and run off the power from there. They didn’t come out for 2 weeks. Lucky my mum knows some electrical stuff, she took the old switch for the outdoor lights (used to Power the old oven) then switch them over, disconnecting the out door lights via the board. The electrician came and checked everything my mum did and we were good to go via the new switch for outdoor lights. The wire was extremely thick, he asked was an oven here before…
so, does this make sense? I think this correct…
i have been thinking but not asked mum yet, but I believe we could add an outdoor weather socket box, I can then plug in my extension lead to this plug when I want power to this area. Otherwise I can reel in the lead and act as if nothing was there.
I am extremely unlikely to do any welding often, so do I want the thicker 2.5mm or would the 1.5mm be good enough but have a 2.5mm cable in my electrical storage box for those rare times I would use the welder?
I know the socket that holds the outdoor lights are definitely connected to the main board, as about 2 months ago, our power blew due to a damaged oven socket the new one, they only put in about a year ago as it wasn’t up to code or something like that, but this new switch wouldn’t turn off, but as it was broken, and it blew the main breaker, we had no power, the ”new socket“ fused the plastic together so it was impossible to turn off.
we called the house people, who said… if we need power, open the board breaker, connect an extension lead to the board, and run off the power from there. They didn’t come out for 2 weeks. Lucky my mum knows some electrical stuff, she took the old switch for the outdoor lights (used to Power the old oven) then switch them over, disconnecting the out door lights via the board. The electrician came and checked everything my mum did and we were good to go via the new switch for outdoor lights. The wire was extremely thick, he asked was an oven here before…
so, does this make sense? I think this correct…