We used to have an electric shower which was removed some years ago. Recently, I have re routed the redundant 6mm shower cable to a new double 13A socket on my landing and the MCB has been replaced by a 20A one.
I now want to add another socket along the line, however, the 6mm cable was about as big as the socket would take so no chance of getting two cores into a second socket. What I would like to do is to "T" off the current cable and run a short length of cable, probably 2.5mm, to the new socket. However, I am not sure how best to join the cables due to their sizes. Are there any jointing boxes with terminals large enough for two 6mm and a 2.5mm core? I am not a fan of connector block type joints where all the cores are stacked in one terminal, I would rather each core had its own terminal on a common block. Another option would be Wago blocks, has anyone used these?
By the way, I cannot replace the 6mm with smaller cable as much of the route is inaccessible.
I now want to add another socket along the line, however, the 6mm cable was about as big as the socket would take so no chance of getting two cores into a second socket. What I would like to do is to "T" off the current cable and run a short length of cable, probably 2.5mm, to the new socket. However, I am not sure how best to join the cables due to their sizes. Are there any jointing boxes with terminals large enough for two 6mm and a 2.5mm core? I am not a fan of connector block type joints where all the cores are stacked in one terminal, I would rather each core had its own terminal on a common block. Another option would be Wago blocks, has anyone used these?
By the way, I cannot replace the 6mm with smaller cable as much of the route is inaccessible.
