This electric cable that feeds an outside door light has been like this since we moved in and never really bother me until now.
Always baffled me why the cable was short and not in trunking going along the ceiling
Anyway properly breaks every legal requirement going so how best could this be put right
Looking at it the main feed comes from the 13amp socket just in the picture to the bottom left, the socket gets its feed coming down form the ceiling in trucking, a cable comes out of the socket to feed the light switch to the middle, the cable feed comes out of the switch in trunking goes back up the wall then takes a left outside of the trunking towards the door (hence cable dangling.
1. Should this be taken off the 13amp socket wiring and put onto the 5 amp wiring
2. Can I just simply chase these wires into the brickwork and put behind metal shielding.
3. If I can chase into wall what are the rules, the wire is short going out towards door will not go up and run along ceiling unless its replaced. Replacing is not so straight forward as it goes in one part of the door frame and comes out in the opposite corner.
Basically in a nutshell can the exposed wire not in trunking be chased into wall horizontal about 12in down from ceiling.
Always baffled me why the cable was short and not in trunking going along the ceiling
Anyway properly breaks every legal requirement going so how best could this be put right
Looking at it the main feed comes from the 13amp socket just in the picture to the bottom left, the socket gets its feed coming down form the ceiling in trucking, a cable comes out of the socket to feed the light switch to the middle, the cable feed comes out of the switch in trunking goes back up the wall then takes a left outside of the trunking towards the door (hence cable dangling.
1. Should this be taken off the 13amp socket wiring and put onto the 5 amp wiring
2. Can I just simply chase these wires into the brickwork and put behind metal shielding.
3. If I can chase into wall what are the rules, the wire is short going out towards door will not go up and run along ceiling unless its replaced. Replacing is not so straight forward as it goes in one part of the door frame and comes out in the opposite corner.
Basically in a nutshell can the exposed wire not in trunking be chased into wall horizontal about 12in down from ceiling.