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Best type of conduit to use?

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Got a job starting soon, installing an outside garden socket, spur from a living room socket.  Living room socket is on adjacent wall, do need to use some conduit, client is fine with this, but I just want some opinions on what would look best above the skirting.  Standard plastic conduit or the smaller ‘D’ shaped conduit?


Also, the outside socket is for a couple of small water features.  The fuseboard is a split RCD 16th edition board, but should I also fit an FCU between the living room socket and new external socket or just a straight spur to new socket?
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    if you are doing this in T and E, then mini-trunking or indeed almost anything will be OK (including clipped direct, but it looks awful..

    For the odd times I do, I tend to do outdoor sockets on a switch and  fused spur, so that when folk go on holiday or it gets damaged by the kids bikes, there is an obvious place to turn it off, but that is not strictly needed for the regs. Also it means you can cover the drill hole with the box..

    Remember to drill slightly down hill so water drains to the outside, rather than inwards,and make sure condensation has an escape hole on the underside
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    if you are doing this in T and E, then mini-trunking or indeed almost anything will be OK (including clipped direct, but it looks awful..

    For the odd times I do, I tend to do outdoor sockets on a switch and  fused spur, so that when folk go on holiday or it gets damaged by the kids bikes, there is an obvious place to turn it off, but that is not strictly needed for the regs. Also it means you can cover the drill hole with the box..

    Remember to drill slightly down hill so water drains to the outside, rather than inwards,and make sure condensation has an escape hole on the underside
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