Outdoor Lighting

[johnsimpson1980]

Hey, 

Looking for some help please if possible and general advise. 

While in France i purchased some garden lighting from Leroy Merlin (A french DIY Chain). Its 230v, and its linkable with various types of connectors to let you expand the system upto a few hundred metres long within the garden. 

I got some deck lights, spike lights, couple of extension cables and a mains plug. 

The instruction manual (Thankfully in english) tells me that i need to plug this into an outdoor socket with an RCD. No problem i have this... 

My questions is, if this is going into a plug socket is it notifiable under Part P. Or can i just pin the cables to the fence and under the decking?

If i pin to the fence there will be around 1.5m of cable from fence to light loose. The lights are switched on by a wireless remote control which also come with the system. 

I have read a lot online, but i am struggling to get an absolute answer. 

The cable is not SWA, its outdoor rubber cable, i think its called HO7FN (Class 2).. 

Thanks in advance ..

 

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My questions is, if this is going into a plug socket is it notifiable under Part P. Or can i just pin the cables to the fence and under the decking?

Part P only applies to fixed wiring, hard wired into the electrical installtion...

Any appliances, leads, accessories etc.. etc.. 

that are powered from a standard 13A plug are not notifiable under Part P.

Guinness

 

[Evans Electric]

So away you go !!

 

[Andy™]

Part P oly applies to fixed wiring, hard wired into the electrical installtion...

Any appliances, leads, accessories etc.. etc.. 

that are powered from a standard 13A plug are not notifiable under Part P.

Guinness

fixed wiring is covered by part p, even if it is connected by a plug. so it depends on if the lights are fixed wiring or not

 

[johnsimpson1980]

Hey. Thanks for the replies.. 

Andy what do you mean fixed wiring? Then plan was i would pin it to the fence so is this what you mean? 

Thanks.

 

[steptoe]

Plug them in and don't worry about part P

No spark is ever going to test  anything plugged in unless they are anal. 

 

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Plug them in and don't worry about part P

No spark is ever going to test  anything plugged in unless they are anal. 

+1.

(excluding PAT testing of course) :innocent  

Just best to make sure the socket you are plugging into is RCD protected. 

Guinness

 

[johnsimpson1980]

Great. Thanks for the reply...