Safe / legal way to joint wall light cable

Oct 25, 2006 4 Replies
J

Hi



I have a couple of wall lights which I want to get rid of and replace with 5 amp sockets at skirting level so that I can turn table lights on from the switch which currently runs the wall lights.



I can't (easily) pull the cable back to room above and use jnct box as this is a modern house with HORRIBLE(!) chip board floors that are a pain to lift and never go back down right.



Is there a safe / legal way to joint the cable and then bury in the wall so that I can chase the cabling down to the skirting from that point?



I imagine it would need to be some kind of sealed (epoxy?) junction box.



Thanks for any help



Jonathan


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M

Crimp or solder and insulate.

Search for the "Buried electrical connections" thread earlier this month and ignore anything written by Alan Holmes.

MBQ

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G

Heh - thanks for the pointer, I missed that thread, and it's quite a funny one.

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T

You could use one of these

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Tony

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J

You need some either some crimp "butt connectors", and a ratchet crimping tool, or a soldering iron and solder plus a couple of sizes of heatshrink sleaving.

Join the wires by crimping or soldering, insulate each wire with the smaller heatshrink, and then insualte the whole joined section in a larger heatshrink.

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