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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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  • To clarify, I was suggesting the outdoor socket(s)  and the fused spur that feeds it on opposite sides of the wall, so the FCU is indoors in the living room or conservatory or whatever, while  the socket it isolates is the  brick wall thicknesses behind it on the outside . Labelling the indoor switch  'outdoor power' helps prevent random call backs about it not working from less technical users.

    The other advantage of an FCU is if an outside flood light is needed too, it can all be fed by the same 13A branch
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  • To clarify, I was suggesting the outdoor socket(s)  and the fused spur that feeds it on opposite sides of the wall, so the FCU is indoors in the living room or conservatory or whatever, while  the socket it isolates is the  brick wall thicknesses behind it on the outside . Labelling the indoor switch  'outdoor power' helps prevent random call backs about it not working from less technical users.

    The other advantage of an FCU is if an outside flood light is needed too, it can all be fed by the same 13A branch
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