Cable routing for new socket.

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Hi

I want to install a socket in the hall on the ground floor of my house, the floor is concrete.

The nearest socket is upstairs but I wanted to avoid wiring a ground floor socket into the 1st floor circuit or doesn't it matter?

Can I run cables horizontally along the top of a wall?.

I can use a socket in the garage and drill straight through the hall wall into it. Would it be acceptable to run a cable to a socket through a wall or should it always be routed on the face of the wall the socket is mounted on?

Regards,

Jon
 
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The nearest socket is upstairs but I wanted to avoid wiring a ground floor socket into the 1st floor circuit or doesn't it matter?
Doesn't matter.

Can be useful.

In theory nobody should get caught out because nobody should fiddle with a socket without actually checking that it's dead, but in practice it would be a good idea to note on the CU that the upstairs breaker also controls the hall socket.


Can I run cables horizontally along the top of a wall?.
Would it be acceptable to run a cable to a socket through a wall or should it always be routed on the face of the wall the socket is mounted on?
You can read all about cable routing in these:

As per the last one - is the circuit already RCD protected?
 
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The nearest socket is upstairs but I wanted to avoid wiring a ground floor socket into the 1st floor circuit or doesn't it matter?
Doesn't matter.

Can be useful.

In theory nobody should get caught out because nobody should fiddle with a socket without actually checking that it's dead, but in practice it would be a good idea to note on the CU that the upstairs breaker also controls the hall socket.

Really? I would have thought that each floor would have to have its own circuit? Not that I'm debating as I'm still in training :)
 
No - circuits can be split how you like.

There is a lot to be said for not losing all the lights/sockets on a floor in order to work on them, and front/rear or left/right splits are OK.

With a good schedule of circuits by the CU, and remembering safe isolation procedures there's nothing to go wrong.
 

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