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A full rewire isnt gonna happen . I will be getting someone to put a new circuit for the cooker and hob, and I will do some lighting improvements myself. The loft space is hellish but its only really this sprawling sockets network which is keeping me awake at night. I believe most of the...

Surprising, is the only alternative a physical tracing and inspection of cables? Surely that's impossible in a lot of cases and leaves hail mary as the only option. In this case I can see a lot of JBs with cables going to/from sockets (see previous posts) Already did that part at least. It...

I'll postba photo when I get there later, but its a 32A MCB in question. If you mean the difference between ring and radial and the other stuff ericmark posted above then yeah. But ive tried to trace some of this circuit through the loft and its extremely difficult. As well as a mishmash of...

Its a single 32A MCB serving most of them, which should correspond to a single circuit (?) This is the circuit I'm most concerned about for the reasons given in the post above, since it could conceivably need to handle all the plugged in loads in the house (also listed above). It has about 10...

It's really just the circuit with all the sockets on that I'm worried about. This will not include an oven, induction hob, immersion or space heaters, or power shower. It will include (off the top of my head) TVs, PCs, other electronics, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge/freezer, vacuum...

The voltage at the CU should be known, let's say 230V. A diagnostic tool plugged into a socket should be capable of drawing a known, fixed current and measuring the voltage at the socket, giving a voltage drop and resistance of the cables. If you also give it an estimate of the cable length...

Property owned by me. What do you mean by 'a long time'? Do you mean physically tracing and inspecting each cable? Because the entire point of the question is not to do that. I've figured out which circuit each socket is on, unless ive inadvertently missed a socket somewhere. Most of them are...

Is there a tool that can easily detect overloaded or overheating cables? I want to add 2 or 3 extra sockets in a property, but the existing installation is a nightmare. I just want something I can plug into each socket to give me a reading for peace of mind (or not). Is there, for example, a...