Help Mounting Outside Light

[chris.tarry85]

Hi All,

I want to mount an outside light on the wall next to our new patio and was planning on tapping in to the lighting circuit in the roof of the adjacent single story building and running down from the soffit board to the light.

There are no suitable sockets or switches on the interior of the ajoining wall to drill through from.

I was planning to use to external trunking like this to make it look neater and also allow me to fit a suitable external switch.

http://www.screwfix.com/c/electrical-lighting/plastic-conduit-acc/cat830584

However I am stumped about how to terminate this in to the back of the light itself as most seen desgined for a cable emerging directly from the wall behind the light.

The kind of light I had in mind was something like this:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/clipper-brushed-stainless-steel-wall-light/83929

Does anyone have any suggestions how this might work?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[chris.tarry85]

In past when I encountered this problem with outside lights , you can drill a hole about 12-14mm where the light is going & using a steel fish tape push it up the cavity to the eaves, then attach cable & pulled it down & out.

Might even be able to move a tile, & have enough slack in felt to push it it up a bit, to get to cavity, you could you use cable draw rods & feed down to the hole drill where light will go, & again attach cable & draw out.
This method is usually a bit harder to do.

I'm afraid cavity wall insulation rules out pushing or pulling anything in the cavity, hence the external trunking