Moving a socket

marko_tarrant · 12 May 2007

Hi I have a double socket and ideally like to move it 1 meter to the left of it current position. The cable isn\\\'t long enough to reach that far can I somehow connect some additional cable?

plugwash · 12 May 2007

how many cables are there?
why exactly are you trying to move it?

if its on the ring (two cables present means it almost certainly is though its good practice to use your multimeter on continuity with the power off to check) then i'd say your best bet is to leave it where it is and run a spur to your new socket unless there is some very important reason to remove it.

marko_tarrant · 12 May 2007

Its on the ring (2 of each present). The house we bought a few weeks ago and some point in the houses life a plumber decided to place a new radiator with the rad valve obstructing the power socket

plugwash · 12 May 2007

idiots will be idiots

what direction do the cables come from?

marko_tarrant · 12 May 2007

above socket

plugwash · 12 May 2007

mmm, the trouble is you can't just join the wires and bury the result even if you use a type of join thats suitable for burying because if you do there will be nothing to indicate the cables going up.

the easiest option to get a usable socket in that location is to spur a socket off the side of the existing one but having the inaccessible socket still there will look a bit naff.

you could possiblly move the socket upwards but i'd be worried about flexes dropping over the potentially hot radiator.

If you can lift the floor above without too much issue you should be able to move the cables so that one comes down on each side of the radiator (i'm guessing they go off in opposite directions under the floor) and then fit two new sockets with a horizontal run between them but it will mean quite a lot of chasing to first get the cables out of thier old route and into the new routes.

Qedelec · 12 May 2007

What's on the other side of the wall?

Is it possible to move the socket to the other side and run a spur to the new position?

marko_tarrant · 12 May 2007

Ive already looked in the floor space and moving the sockets either side of the radiator isn't possible.

I guess I'll just have to live with it.

Thanks anyway

marko_tarrant · 12 May 2007

Hi Qedelec

The other side of the wall is the hallway, I suppose that is possible

Qedelec · 12 May 2007

There you go then, one extra socket in the hall can come in handy. Most houses have just one and if you have the telephone out there plus a lamp there's no place to power the vaccy.

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