Hello all
I'm planning to decorate a room in my house soon and I'd like to move and add a few sockets/switches when I do so.
The whole house is in dire need of a rewire (fusewire CU, no RCD, spurs EVERYWHERE) and I plan to have that work done in the middle of next year but I'd really like to get this one room decorated before then. I'd like to have all of the sockets/switches flush mounted.
My plan is to use conduit buried in the safe zones for all of the new and existing fixtures so that when I go ahead with the rewire, the sparks can pull cables through rather than have to hack apart a freshly decorated room.
My question is, what size conduit should I use for the sockets and how many?
The house is Victorian and the wall where the majority of the sockets are going is an external cavity wall. Because of this, I'd like to use as small a conduit as possible to avoid having to take too much out of the brick. I was thinking of 20mm x 11mm oval for the sockets or maybe 20mm round. Would I need 2 conduits per socket or could both cables for the ring be drawn through the same conduit?
Thanks for your advice.
I'm planning to decorate a room in my house soon and I'd like to move and add a few sockets/switches when I do so.
The whole house is in dire need of a rewire (fusewire CU, no RCD, spurs EVERYWHERE) and I plan to have that work done in the middle of next year but I'd really like to get this one room decorated before then. I'd like to have all of the sockets/switches flush mounted.
My plan is to use conduit buried in the safe zones for all of the new and existing fixtures so that when I go ahead with the rewire, the sparks can pull cables through rather than have to hack apart a freshly decorated room.
My question is, what size conduit should I use for the sockets and how many?
The house is Victorian and the wall where the majority of the sockets are going is an external cavity wall. Because of this, I'd like to use as small a conduit as possible to avoid having to take too much out of the brick. I was thinking of 20mm x 11mm oval for the sockets or maybe 20mm round. Would I need 2 conduits per socket or could both cables for the ring be drawn through the same conduit?
Thanks for your advice.