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Of course - thanks TTC. Bit of a brain fart this evening! Not being an electrician, I don't live & breath this stuff every day! Thanks for clearing that up. Luckily, I don't think the OP wants to spur from the added socket, so FCU issue averted. Thanks too to EFLI.

I'm interpreting this as follows: There are two ring final circuits, upstairs & downstairs. There is a single socket in the garage that is part of the downstairs ring final that the OP wishes to spur another socket from. There is another single socket in the garage that has been added at a later...

TTC - is it acceptable to have a radial single socket connected to a 32A MCB wired in 2.5mm as it appears to have been done?

Sooo.... the single socket that you say was installed at a later date is a different single socket to the one you first referred to (the one you use for soldering iron)? Could you confirm that you have two ring final circuits (the soldering iron socket is on one of these) & a single socket...

The flex on my mother's ancient iron went bang where it exits the appliance. I bought a length of replacement flex from ebay & fitted it (nothing appeared odd wrt conductor size). It went bang in exactly the same place the very first time she used it. As a result I will never buy cables...

Mira Coda.

Or a grow room! :whistle:

I wonder where the red wire is going?

What is it that you are doing in the garage to make the RCD in the house trip often enough to cause this reaction?

That surprises me.

It was (sort of) a tongue in cheek question, but I imagine you're right. What about an analogue meter? Edit: It would just work as normal wouldn't it? Because it's AC.

If you reverse the input/output & pass some current through it, will it run backwards? Similar to the Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's day off.

The spar bath (sic) is apparently fed from MCB number 11 (15A?), but the legend on the wall suggests MCB number 2 (6A). Somebody might have been counting from the opposite end I suppose, but it's anybody's guess. Did Spar ever sell budget Jacuzzis that only draw <6A? :mrgreen:

I actively seek pub gardens with the odd beer can & car tyre littered around. Are you sure that's not a squat?

It's in the picture at the rear of the property. That would appear to be the case. You have to admire the inginuity and bizaar intent to retain that particular fitting!

I spotted this in a BBC news article: Article here if interested: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51310566

Purchase yourself a set of trim removal tools. I used to cause damage to clips etc. by going at it with screwdrivers and other metal implements. With trim tools, not only do they not damage the plastics, they are quite delicate themselves, so you need to take it easy. Once the door card is off...

Do you not require some sort of permission to erect something on the land opposite your gateway?

I usually drill straight through the trunking into the wall & insert a red plug through the trunking, when the countersunk screw head meets the wall plug, it spreads out creating a "washer" of sorts. :D

Just measured an old clear BC GLS from Sainsbury's - 140.2mm overall by 60mm. HTH.