How To Install an Outside Socket | External Plug Installation Guide 

An excellent teacher you are. Straight to the point, clear explanations, breaks things down. Better job than many teachers out there.

This bloke really knows his stuff. Follow him and you'll save time and do the job safely.

Very good description of how wire up an outdoor socket. Easy and clear. Thank you. As a diy beginner, I will enjoy following your channel.

Nice one. Thank you. I need an outdoor double socket so I can get power to my greenhouse and so I can plus my mower in outside instead of going through a window or door. I was going to pay somebody to do it for me but this looks super simple... I've fitted electric sockets before but was a tad worried about moisture with an outdoor socket. This has eased my worries of doing it myself. Thanks 👍🏾 😁

Clear instructions, great explanations of why to do something, no ego (ain't I clever) just confidence boost to make me give it a go. Thanks

Very straight forward and to the point. Keep it up!

Brilliant video really easy to follow and clear. Got a nice outside waterproof socket now installed👍🏻👌

Always love your vids brother

Very informative ! Thanks a lot !

Your video was very clear mate. Well done. Look forward to more just like it. Good luck 🤞🏻

I know that this is 3 years old but I followed your instructions today for tge exact same outside socket and am thrilled that I was able to do it tha ks to you 👍 I really enjoy your videos and they have not only helped me do jobs myself but my confidence is growing as well. Thanks DIY King 👑

very informative and helpful thanks a lot

Nice video, thanks. I have an aversion to knocking nails into masonry, it just don't seem right, but I know that's how the professionals do it. Also my experience of using the plastic clips is the plastic part eventually cracks and splits, so I use nylon 'P' clips and screws.

Great video 😊thanks always learning from you 👍

fantastic video and properly done

Great vid very helpful thankyou look forward to seeing more

Spot on thanks - exactly what I was looking for, well presented cheers 👍

Brilliantly presented Really clear and concise and given me the confidence to tackle the job 👍🏻

Thanks for this video. This is exactly the sort of job I want to do but have never tried. Thanks for the ABC style step by step guide. The tools, the method and the 'just how much of a job is it' - those are elements a lot of us look at as it may be a one-off job for many of us.

Nice video, exactly what I needed. Cheers mate.

You made this look so easy and gave me confidence to try it! I hope I can locate the cable for my socket behind the back box but I assume that'll be easy

Great job very helpfull keep up the good work ☘️🥃💚👍

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Very helpful video. Thanks for making it!🙂👍

Good job, well explained and although it isn’t exactly what I need to do, (I need to put one out to a decking area)it’s given me a good idea of what’s involved. Thanks

That's awesome! Thank you! I thought it would be harder to get the electricity to it, but it's so simple! X x

Greg video mate. Keep up the good fight.

Great video thanks very helpful

Brilliantly explained.I've Subscibed Thank you

Good video, very clear

thank you for all your help

Hi. I need to drill a hole from my living room to outside. It’s standard drywall then brick work. Would you just cable detect then drill straight though. Thanks

Lovely video, nice and easy to follow.

If you drill from the outside in at a slight upward angle or inside out at a slight downward angle then no water can get inside. Its not relevant in your case but it should be said that if you come off a ring circuit you can only spur once so you cant spur off a spur. Another tip I would always put an outside socket connected to a fcu, think about this, its christmas day and hammering it down with rain, water has as it always will eventually got into that socket and has tripped the rcd, you have a freezer in the garage that you need but everytime you turn on the garage circuit it trips the rcd. If you have a fcu you can isolate the outside socket so you can deal with it at a later date. I would also run a bead of silicone over the top and sides of the socket just to reduce the chance of any water ingress. You could make life easier for yourself by stripping more of the outer sheathing, there is plenty of room in the socket and you will find it easier to terminate if you leave more of the single insulated conductors in the socket. pull the cable out, measure 3 fingers beyond the box then cut and strip back as much as possible. If you terminate only one cable into a socket it is really better to fold the end of the conductor over so it fills the terminal better which will ensure a better connection.. Finally as a minimum do a zs test and test your rcd to make sure it will trip, no point having an rcd if it wont trip in the required time.

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Thank you, I lean more.

Thanks for your great videos. I want to fit an outside socket for my hot tub. Is it advisable to run a spur from my internal socket to a fused spur point and thereafter wiring the external sockets to the fused spur?

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Hi from 2024. Nice content.

Good stuff,,,,mate appreciate,,,,👌

hi mate how do i do it for double socket 1 either side of the house as all the power is on 1 side only

A fab grand job

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I am installing an external power socket and re-watched your excellent video. One thing, I'd like to check: what is the main reason for using the 15mm barrier pipe? Is it to protect the electric cable from the elements (inside the wall)? Would it matter much if I omitted using it? Many thanks for you channel. I particularly liked the video you did on installing lights in the loft. Kind regards...

hey i have a double waterproof socket that has two sets of 3 wires 1 on each plug... i want to convert it to a single timer based outdoor socket.. it should be ok to double up the wires as you said?? thanks now

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Awesome video! Thanks for sharing! Quick question: the socket has 2 earth entries, why did you use only one? Does it mean one gang will not be earthed? Thanks!

Completely logical and efficient approach and excellent video. With your experience can you please clarify how the regs apply to this? I always understood all wiring in Kitchens, Bathrooms and outside had to be done by a NICEIC approved electrician and measurements taken of the new circuit. Are these reg requirements more relaxed now with the general installation of RCDs? Thank you

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Thank you.

Excellent video. I have no DIY knowledge at all. I have a single socket outside - is it the same process to change from single to double as your indoor single to double socket change? Thanks!

Oh it has helped mate spot on I have a outside socket on my new house I've just bought would I be right in saying I can bounce of that like you have in your garage and then put two double in my shed or would that overload it it's a new build I've got so one socket is on the house outside already it's only to run a dryer some led lights and maybe a spare in there for charging my drill up ect

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Nice video and very easy to follow. Do you have a ring or radial circuit? I see you are taking the power off the socket that only has one set of wiring in it? Is this the end of the circuit or is it already a spur?

In the uk don’t you need to get new outside sockets or wiring of that case signed off by a P certified installer. Or you void your house insurance and face fines etc?

New subscriber so of course checking out your back catalogue, great content thanks, need to do this myself, it is always great to see a a video guiding you through it, yours is clear and concise so thank you :) Can I ask, we do have RCD protection at home, is there any good reason to still use an RCD protected outdoor box? Extra protection in some way? If there was an issue which would trip first the RCD in the outdoor socket or the house RCD? Like you there are lots of circuits on our setup at home protected by the 1 RCD so if the outdoor socket tripped first that of course would leave all the house circuits still live, any idea?

One other question: could you have used wago connectors on the "source" wiring instead of double wiring the socket?

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Are the wires between the originally installed socket loops more sturdy/capable than the wire you use for a spur?

Hi I have an outdoor plug but it's at the bottom of my garden in a shed and it's an old plug that's always been on as it was for our oil boiler but it has stopped working what do I do?

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I’m thinking of doing this myself. I’m just wondering if this needs to be signed off by an electrician? Don’t really want the hassle when coming to sell the house in the future.

Great video! I’m assuming that’s a radial and that you didn’t spur off a spur? 🤔 Personally I’d probably run it through an FCU first but not necessary I suppose. Often people don’t use conduit but it’s important to protect the cable.

Hi, great and easy to follow video. Question: I'd like to install one of these in my back garden. Can you tell me would you need an electrical cert. for this? When do you need cert.s?

Great video, thanks again. Is it safe to attach an outside plug and light to the corrugated metal sheeting I have around my shed? If it is safe to do so - Does the plug need to be fitted to a flat surface? If yes, then presumably I can attach it to a piece of ply and then screw the ply to the corrugated sheet.

I. could. do. this. Thanks for making these videos without sounding like an arrogant know it all (except at 5:08 lol ;) ) and keeping the videos gibberish free.

Hi the socket box is 13 A do we have to use a socket fuse spur with 13 A fuse or we wire directly as you have show in this video?

Stop banging the tools and materials around 😂😂 Another well explained tutorial, thank you

I find it interesting your boxes don't require the non-metallic (Twin and Earth/Bare) to be clamped in place inside the box like we have in Canada. I also find it interesting that you put a sleeve over your grounding/earth conductor.

Nice and simple you don’t need a lot of tools . Hahahahahahaha😂 brill video

Was going to do something similar, but the only socket I could find inside was already a spur and therefore was looking for somewhere else to connect to. I see that you've done exactly that (assuming it is a ring rather than radial). Is there any issue of spurring off an existing spur?

Good DIY video, some nice detail with the protection of cables through walls for example but for anyone that may attempt to follow it: Check the inside face of the wall for services not just the outside with those detection devices, they will not penetrate a cavity wall. Also, electrical cables can/should be run directly vertically and/or horizontally in any direction from any accessories (switches and sockets etc). PROVE that the circuit is dead before working on it - don't just rely on the fact it says it's off at the Consumer unit as it may be mis-lablled or fed from a different circuit entirely. TEST your modification afterwards. Plug in testers are a minimum as you will not notice a disconnected earth(CPC) conductor. As this is an outside socket has a high potential for faults.

Is that a soured socket and did you use 1.5 or 2.5 T & E ? Great video, I’m going to install one myself.

I'm looking to put up an outside light, I've run 1.5 into it and a plug on the other end then just plugged it into my outside socket, I'd rather it be run directly into a switch inside, can you do a video for that please?

Whats the Ze,zs,r1+r2, polarity and insulation resistance.was it a ring main if so did you calculate your readings of the ring r1x1.66 for the 1.5 cpc expected end to end result? Or was it x2.5 because you had a 1mm cpc in that old twin? On the rcd did it test OK 1x 5x. Type Ac rcd in the fuse board is that going to be OK. Just in case it don't comply have we checked the bonding.just some of the cheeks a competent person should be doing.

So you have spured off a spur? Is there a fused spur before your first original outlet?

Here's my problem: Where I need to install the outside socket is on a wall which, on the other side, is a landing with no sockets. The nearest socket is in a bedroom and, to get there from the inside wall where the outside socket is placed on the other side, I'd have to run cabling up and down and around a whole bunch of walls or lift up carpets and flooring to run underneath. The alternative would be, I guess, to, somehow, run directly from the main switch/consumer unit which is located downstairs (but on the same wall as the outside socket) and then it's a matter of, somehow, running cable from the consumer unit (all switches are used however) but how to run the cable up those stairs, I have no idea. Any suggestions? Thanks.

So I have a ring circuit and I have taken a spur to a double outside plug off a single plug, then a SWA to a second single socket off that double socket. So 4 sockets in all off one spur. Given all 13 amp this should be ok?! Despite you normally saying only one spur off a ring circuit plug?

I’m going to be doing this using 2.5 my flex, I know this is probably a daft question but should I be using a 13amp plug?

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Nice video. IMO pex is a total overkill and you can easily seal the hole with silicone, mastic, etc. Since the electrics are attached to the wall, you will get no movement and mechanical degradation of the protective sleeve. That said it's a really nice touch and makes things very serviceable. One trick to save yourself a lot of potential problems, don't pre drill the box. Level it on the wall, and use some duct tape to hold it (temporarily). Drill though the box and into the wall. That way you know it's all lined up and you'll never have to deal with poor placement of plugs. In case this is not clear, you need to turn the hammer function off when you drill the plastic. ABS plastic is strong but you can still crack it. Also a masonry bit will technically rub the plastic until it sort of melts away rather than drill it but it absolutely works. Once you have a hole in the wall, depending on the plugs you use, you may even be able to insert them though the box into the wall ( with the screw slightly attached). Small size Rawplugs work like this but Fisher doesn't so you'll need to move the box out of the way for a bit.

I oready have a outside light , could you use a terminal strip ( not use on the amp needed ) use a terminal strip inside a waterproof junction box to split the wire intoo 2 lights off the one wire Sorry might sound like a stupid question but I'd rather ask then find out the hard way , tia

Can I run conduit under the soil along my path down to my pool and fit this to a solid wooden fence post?

Have you done a video on how to wire a shed ?

What size cable was used?

How much mastic do I need and were can I get it

I see below that this circuit has been tapped off a radial rather than a spur. Many people will be tapping from ring mains, and it's important that they don't do this off already existing spurs. Perhaps this should have been included, especially as it means that they'll be attaching 3 lots of connections into the back of the socket (two for the ring and one for the outside spur) which can be hard to do given the inflexibility of modern gauge wiring, and more likely to end with loose connections from having three wires in each terminal.

Because it’s ip66 if you drill the drain whole would it still be ip66

really good instructional video but could you amend the description text with a list of the tools and equipment needed please?

DOH! As soon as you drill that drain hole its not ip66 rated anymore. Youll see on the instructions or the writing on the back box that it clearly says that.

I’ve got brown,blue and back wires is that normal ?

what size electrical cable

Is this not a spur off a spur, and no isolation point after the internal wiring.

Isn't that running a spur from a spur?

Virgin Media teach you to drill from the inside and push all your weight on the drill so it comes out the other side like DumDum bullet hole and busts all the brick face out ...

Your newest videos are ssssoooooo much better than this. Thank god.

Surprised you did not run the power into a fused spur internally then to run it through the wall to the socket.

Should never be done by Diyer though. Unless you can test the circuit how do you know it’s safe.

Basically you need the contents of B&Q to do this job

Where abouts are you based?