Hi guys,
I'm hoping you can help me: I have a single socket in my living room which I plan to move and whilst I'm moving it, change it to a double. However, I had a rummage under the floorboards and noted there was a single cable serving the socket. So it's a spur, I thought. Since I'm running coax and network cables in the living room I'm getting a lot of floorboards up anyway, so I thought I'd wire the new double socket into the ring and simply remove the old spur.
This is where I get confused. I started tracing the cable serving the "spur" to find out which socket in the living room serves it and to my surprise, the cable disappears out of the living room and onto the landing. So then I took some boards up on the landing and discovered the cable then heads into my office. I traced it about 4m into the office (I'm reluctant to get any boards up in there because I've just a brand new floor laid!) before figuring it must be coming from downstairs - I redid the electrics in my office last year so I know it's not being served from a socket in there. My office is above the garage, though, which is where the fusebox is located.
Is it possible that this single socket is fed directly from the consumer unit with a single cable? If so, why would that be? Judging by the cable and the plaster around the socket, I think it's original, not a recent addition to the room. What I'd really like to know is: can I simply snip the cable off and terminate it in a junction box?
Thanks all, any help much appreciated...
I'm hoping you can help me: I have a single socket in my living room which I plan to move and whilst I'm moving it, change it to a double. However, I had a rummage under the floorboards and noted there was a single cable serving the socket. So it's a spur, I thought. Since I'm running coax and network cables in the living room I'm getting a lot of floorboards up anyway, so I thought I'd wire the new double socket into the ring and simply remove the old spur.
This is where I get confused. I started tracing the cable serving the "spur" to find out which socket in the living room serves it and to my surprise, the cable disappears out of the living room and onto the landing. So then I took some boards up on the landing and discovered the cable then heads into my office. I traced it about 4m into the office (I'm reluctant to get any boards up in there because I've just a brand new floor laid!) before figuring it must be coming from downstairs - I redid the electrics in my office last year so I know it's not being served from a socket in there. My office is above the garage, though, which is where the fusebox is located.
Is it possible that this single socket is fed directly from the consumer unit with a single cable? If so, why would that be? Judging by the cable and the plaster around the socket, I think it's original, not a recent addition to the room. What I'd really like to know is: can I simply snip the cable off and terminate it in a junction box?
Thanks all, any help much appreciated...