I currently have an outdoor socket attached to the garage wall (power fed from another socket in the garage). I want to move the socket to the other side of a new patio and have put a flexible conduit under the patio so that I can feed an SWA cable under for the new socket.
I'm thinking to put some kind of junction box on the garage wall where the socket was, with conduit then going down the wall to the flexible conduit (with a junction box in-between). I have a couple of external appliances (robot lawnmower and lighting) - can I plug these into the socket in the garage and feed the cable down the same conduit as the SWA cable, then come out of a junction box with a gland?
I hope that makes sense - I guess essentially I'm asking if I can run ordinary appliance cable and an SWA cable going to a socket in the same conduit. The length is for this is less than 2 metres.
This will be the cleanest looking solution, but I want to make sure I'm not doing something unsafe or breaking regs. I think I can move the socket without an electrician involved as I'm not adding anything new?
Many thanks!
I'm thinking to put some kind of junction box on the garage wall where the socket was, with conduit then going down the wall to the flexible conduit (with a junction box in-between). I have a couple of external appliances (robot lawnmower and lighting) - can I plug these into the socket in the garage and feed the cable down the same conduit as the SWA cable, then come out of a junction box with a gland?
I hope that makes sense - I guess essentially I'm asking if I can run ordinary appliance cable and an SWA cable going to a socket in the same conduit. The length is for this is less than 2 metres.
This will be the cleanest looking solution, but I want to make sure I'm not doing something unsafe or breaking regs. I think I can move the socket without an electrician involved as I'm not adding anything new?
Many thanks!
