Old shower power cable

[damage]

Hi,
Recently fitted a new bathroom and have removed my old electric shower in favor of the valve type so I now have a spare power cable sat up in the loft.

Would it be Ok for me to extend this cable over to a bedroom and fit a double plug socket on the end? And also maybe use it to power an outside light?

Damahe

 

[Chivers7]

It would be ok but think about lowering the fuse rating to perhaps 15 amp as you're going to need to join it and bring it down somewhere.

Also if you want to serve an outside light make sure you use a switched fused spur and a 3 amp fuse as protection to it.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Yes, but you will need to keep the cable size the same (ie you cannot extend it in 2.5mm if the old showr cable is in 6mm).

Use a suitable junction box in the loft that can accomodate the cable sizes.

You can use it to power an external light either thru a plug into the new socket or by adding a fused spur & hardwire the light into the fused spur.

Spur or plug should be fused at 3amps for a lighting feed.

 

[damage]

Yes, but you will need to keep the cable size the same (ie you cannot extend it in 2.5mm if the old showr cable is in 6mm).

Why is that?

 

[ColJack]

because at some point, an idiot is going to look in your fuse box and see a 6mm cable exiting the 20A breaker and assume that he can safely uprate it back to 40 amps..

I would take the wire out of the breaker completely then run a new ring or radial to the bedroom with a 20A or 32A breaker respectively..