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Default Electrical weatherbox: pragmatic solution or nasty hack?

Hello -

I've currently got a 2 low-power electrical items (a wall-wart for a network
camera and a NetGear "HomePlug" switch) plugged into electrical sockets in a
very dirty and slightly damp outbuilding. I'd like to buy one of these Volex
weatherboxes:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=44658
so that I can protect them. The power strip inside the weatherbox would be
connected to an existing RCD-protected socket using some suitable flex and a
13A plug with a 3A fuse in it. The weatherbox would be permanently fixed to
the wall next to the existing socket. The existing socket is on a radial
from the consumer unit, not a ring.

This seems like a nice tidy solution, but it also seems to be a sneaky way
of installing extra fixed sockets and daisy-chaining them from an existing
socket rather than installing some more T+E from the consumer unit. Is this
all OK from a best-practice and regulations point of view?




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