Recent content by Foolonthehill

Thanks for your suggestion Owain, and yes, it would be the most sensible option if 1) I needed any further sockets (one new double in room 1 is actually sufficient - I have further sockets in the second room); and 2) I had access to the cabling between the sockets. As it is I still think the...

All cabling and other services are run in the void between the concrete slabs. Any sockets are fed in the traditional manner from the ring circuit (cabling comes up behind skirting and is sunk into the plaster). It's definitely a standard ring circuit so running a spur from a socket should be...

Because I have concrete floors, thus the cabling is not easily accessible anywhere but at the sockets.

Thanks John, the existing ring circuit is protected at the CU with an RCD (the CU was replaced only a couple of years ago by a NICEIC-registered contractor).

Thanks for your swift reply. Note that I'm not looking to mount the two sockets either side of the same wall... the picture (which, looking at it now can probably be misinterpreted) is looking 'face-on' (ie the wall in the picture would be coming straight out of the screen towards you); hence to...

I have two adjacent rooms each of which have a socket on the same (exterior, front-facing) wall. Both sockets are mounted at the same height, located towards the lhs of each room's wall. I want to install an additional socket on the same wall in the first room, towards the rhs of that room...