Hi all,
I have a 60's house with hardly any sockets, I want to hang a LED TV from the bedroom wall and obviously need power. I'd like to add a socket in the stud wall behind the TV and I have as far as I can see two options to get the outlet powered...
1) In the loft is what appears to be 3 core 1.5mm running from the board on a 16a breaker (non RCD protected) to the airing cupboard, into a RCD then out to the shower booster. This circuit also has the oil boiler on it. Can I take a feed from the junction box in the loft that the shower is attached to and run that into the bedroom?
2) On the same wall in the bedroom we have a 2 gang socket fed via a spur from a socket in the next room on the other side of the stairwell. The wiring is exposed through a cupboard above the stairs into the socket so access there is easy. I don't believe I can spur from that socket as it's already a spur but could I add a fused spur into the wiring between the sockets then continue to add a further socket to the new TV? Or is that not valid because the bedroom twin socket is a spur from a socket not from a junction box.
3) Drop a feed from the lighting ring?
I'll use 2.5mm twin and earth for anything.
I get that there is a right way, a who is gonna find out way and the oh dear you might burn your house down way - which is the way forward or am I over thinking it ?
Thanks for any help!
Cheers
Paul
I have a 60's house with hardly any sockets, I want to hang a LED TV from the bedroom wall and obviously need power. I'd like to add a socket in the stud wall behind the TV and I have as far as I can see two options to get the outlet powered...
1) In the loft is what appears to be 3 core 1.5mm running from the board on a 16a breaker (non RCD protected) to the airing cupboard, into a RCD then out to the shower booster. This circuit also has the oil boiler on it. Can I take a feed from the junction box in the loft that the shower is attached to and run that into the bedroom?
2) On the same wall in the bedroom we have a 2 gang socket fed via a spur from a socket in the next room on the other side of the stairwell. The wiring is exposed through a cupboard above the stairs into the socket so access there is easy. I don't believe I can spur from that socket as it's already a spur but could I add a fused spur into the wiring between the sockets then continue to add a further socket to the new TV? Or is that not valid because the bedroom twin socket is a spur from a socket not from a junction box.
3) Drop a feed from the lighting ring?
I'll use 2.5mm twin and earth for anything.
I get that there is a right way, a who is gonna find out way and the oh dear you might burn your house down way - which is the way forward or am I over thinking it ?
Thanks for any help!
Cheers
Paul