I've been decorating which has lead me to discover some more wonderful electrics in our home. 2 metal Wall lights either side of the bed spurred from a ring socket and switched with 2 2way 2 gang metal switches.
The lights and switches weren't earthed so I've changed the switches over to plastic and managed to recover 1 cut back earth from an existing cable plus run a new earth down to a socket on the same ring below the other light (the 2 3 core cables running between them don't seem to have earths in them) so now the lights are both earthed.
Not ideal but leaves 1 remaining problem, they have been spurred off the 2.5mm main using 1 or at best 1.5mm cable without being fused down. Having just decorated I'd prefer not to have to install a FSU in a new hole in the wall and/or damage the decoration attempting to run new cable (the 3 cores run in plastic surface trunking along the skirting board but it looks like they had fun getting them through a stud in the wall).
What options are left? I had wondered if there was such a thing as an inline fuse that I could put in the back of the socket but it seems they are not very common and probably not meant for this purpose. I had thought of running cable upto the loft above and back down to get rid of the surface trunking but that involves a lot of work too (it's fully boarded).
I guess the risk is that the lighting cable could be overloaded but how likely is that in reality? Must have been like this for 20 years. I see in a recent thread that there was a spur in smaller cable that wasn't fused down that got a C3 which I assume is livable?
The lights and switches weren't earthed so I've changed the switches over to plastic and managed to recover 1 cut back earth from an existing cable plus run a new earth down to a socket on the same ring below the other light (the 2 3 core cables running between them don't seem to have earths in them) so now the lights are both earthed.
Not ideal but leaves 1 remaining problem, they have been spurred off the 2.5mm main using 1 or at best 1.5mm cable without being fused down. Having just decorated I'd prefer not to have to install a FSU in a new hole in the wall and/or damage the decoration attempting to run new cable (the 3 cores run in plastic surface trunking along the skirting board but it looks like they had fun getting them through a stud in the wall).
What options are left? I had wondered if there was such a thing as an inline fuse that I could put in the back of the socket but it seems they are not very common and probably not meant for this purpose. I had thought of running cable upto the loft above and back down to get rid of the surface trunking but that involves a lot of work too (it's fully boarded).
I guess the risk is that the lighting cable could be overloaded but how likely is that in reality? Must have been like this for 20 years. I see in a recent thread that there was a spur in smaller cable that wasn't fused down that got a C3 which I assume is livable?
