Hi.
I have a fair sized living room that is rectangle in shape. I was a bit astonished to find that I had only 2 X double sockets in one corner of the room only, and total zip for the rest of the room. Even worse, the hallway has only 1 X single socket, and the front pourch zip! Only the kichen is fine.
I am new on here, and sorry to go on moaning. The TV,DVD, and Digibox and answerphone took up the sockets. As for Christmas and where to put the tree, and the lights resulted in stick sockets everywhere. This is dangerous! Trip hazzard for one, plus the risk of fire. I took the care to ensure that the stick sockets had auto cut-outs.
I have worked out that I would like to put an extra double socket in the hall, and four more in the livingroom, and will be surface mounted. If I have to put in a spur, - where is best, and how many sockets can you have running off it?
I know to look for the last socket on the ring with a single cable going in to it. How do you run it back to the ring? Or, do I just keep going along, and then run a long length back along to the junction box?
It would be great to hear from you experts.
Cheers.
Gaz.