Some advice needed for adding some outside sockets.
We have just had a bedroom plastered and decorated, the other half now wants a couple of outside sockets put in on the other side of the bedroom wall (great planning!). They will be used to mainly plug in some outdoor lights, supply a light and a couple of sockets in a shed and the usual garden tools.
If I had known before the plastering was done then I would have put in a switched fuse unit and ran the two sockets from this but I don't really want to mess around cutting boxes into the wall now. So...my next option is breaking into the ring underneath the floor boards and putting the extra sockets on the ring.
I think I am right in saying that all connections these days need to be accessible so I assume that a normal 4 way junction box can't be used? Could some maintenance free Wago connectors inside an adaptable box be used instead? Is there another was of doing it.
We have just had a bedroom plastered and decorated, the other half now wants a couple of outside sockets put in on the other side of the bedroom wall (great planning!). They will be used to mainly plug in some outdoor lights, supply a light and a couple of sockets in a shed and the usual garden tools.
If I had known before the plastering was done then I would have put in a switched fuse unit and ran the two sockets from this but I don't really want to mess around cutting boxes into the wall now. So...my next option is breaking into the ring underneath the floor boards and putting the extra sockets on the ring.
I think I am right in saying that all connections these days need to be accessible so I assume that a normal 4 way junction box can't be used? Could some maintenance free Wago connectors inside an adaptable box be used instead? Is there another was of doing it.
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