I've just been perusing a copy of "The Which Book of Wiring and Lighting". It says that when fitting outdoor sockets, a single socket outlet mounted on the house wall can be wired as a spur off one of the existing circuits, but socket outlets remote from the house have to be supplied from a dedicated circuit with their own fuseway in the consumer unit. The book seems pretty authoritative, but I thought I'd check this here. It's a bit of a blow to me, because I want a couple of sockets a short distance from the house and because of the layout and decoration of the house it's going to be a great pain taking the cable all the way back to the consumer unit. I'm not sure what additional safety requirement this fulfills. If the sockets away from the house are on a 13amp FCU off the ring with RCD protection and all the external cable is SWA what additional protection can a separate circuit offer?
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19 years ago