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Caveat - I WON'T be doing this myself. I just want to have the knowledge to talk to electricians.
I would like an 13 amp socket on the outside wall facing the garden. The physical layout of the house means that getting a spur onto any of the downstairs mains rings will be tricky. To be precise, routing said spur to the outside wall will be tricky.
But one place which won't be is the laundry. It's unplastered so disruption to decoration isn't an issue. What there is in there at the moment is:
1. A double socket, which is part of (one of) the downstairs mains rings (there are two thick wires going in side of it - so it's on the ring, yes?).
2. Coming off that socket is an FCU feeding exterior lights.
3. Also coming off that socket is a single cable which goes to a double mains socket - washer and tumble dryer.
Can I use that double socket for a 3rd spur? Or extend the washing machine spur?
By "can" I mean within the regs and safely (I understand that those two things aren't always equivalent).
The house had a rewire when we bought it in 1995. Though poorly. Since then a great deal of it has been rewired again, though not completely. The ring main in the laundry however dates from 2013 I think. The consumer unit is new and has RCBOs on each circuit.
Thanks for any advice.
I would like an 13 amp socket on the outside wall facing the garden. The physical layout of the house means that getting a spur onto any of the downstairs mains rings will be tricky. To be precise, routing said spur to the outside wall will be tricky.
But one place which won't be is the laundry. It's unplastered so disruption to decoration isn't an issue. What there is in there at the moment is:
1. A double socket, which is part of (one of) the downstairs mains rings (there are two thick wires going in side of it - so it's on the ring, yes?).
2. Coming off that socket is an FCU feeding exterior lights.
3. Also coming off that socket is a single cable which goes to a double mains socket - washer and tumble dryer.
Can I use that double socket for a 3rd spur? Or extend the washing machine spur?
By "can" I mean within the regs and safely (I understand that those two things aren't always equivalent).
The house had a rewire when we bought it in 1995. Though poorly. Since then a great deal of it has been rewired again, though not completely. The ring main in the laundry however dates from 2013 I think. The consumer unit is new and has RCBOs on each circuit.
Thanks for any advice.