We have a garden pond with the usual electrics (pump and filter also lighting). I installed the electrics using Blagdon Armoured Garden Power Supply Kit, armoured cable etc. The house had a new consumer box last year with RCD, but I was given advice that for the outside electrics to be legal it had to have its own RCD. So I installed a power point with RCD in the house which is solely for the outside, a cable runs through the wall and into the Blagdon weatherproof box. I believed that satisfied legal requirements.
Today we had an electrician in to wire up new kitchen appliances and new sockets. He finished the job while I was out. On my return I saw that he had removed the power point with the RCD and replaced it with a standard single one and he also put a new double socket next to it wired from the single socket. So the outside electrics no longer have a separate RDC.
Is this acceptable and more importantly are my outside electrics legal and safe now.
Today we had an electrician in to wire up new kitchen appliances and new sockets. He finished the job while I was out. On my return I saw that he had removed the power point with the RCD and replaced it with a standard single one and he also put a new double socket next to it wired from the single socket. So the outside electrics no longer have a separate RDC.
Is this acceptable and more importantly are my outside electrics legal and safe now.