Hi all,
I've moved into a house with a water fountain in the back garden. Whoever installed it wasn't electrically competent though ;) There's a weatherproof box mounted on the wall outside which has mains transformer inside and the power to the pump is low voltage from there. The issue is with how the mains gets to that box. Currently that's achieved with a long internal grade solid core cable that is laid along the ground and goes half way round the base of the house, straight through a wall and terminates in a 3 pin plug :/ Needless to say I've left it switched off for now ;)
On the other side of the wall the box is mounted on there's a double socket on the ring main and we only ever use one of the sockets. It's also in an ideal place to control the fountain so what I'd like to do is replace that with a faceplate that has a single normal socket and also an RCD FCU (probably just with a 1A fuse in). I've got some arctic grade cable lying around somewhere that I can use for the very short run through the wall into the box.
First problem is that I can't find any such faceplates for sale. Also I'm unsure about whether the wiring on the switched side of a FCU constitutes a spur and what the implications are there. And then there's the Part P stuff :(
Suggestions? :)
Thanks,
Peter.