Accessible Junction boxes

[bernardgreen]

Found this in a cottage a few years ago. just discovered the photo during a clear out.

Junction boxes

• bernardgreen
• 13 May 2011
• 6

All junctions boxes must be accessible

One JB at the end was for the door bell

 

[Alarm]

Could have fitted them straight

 

[bernardgreen]

Could have fitted them straight

Why ? Nothing else in that cottage is straight, horizontal or vertical.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Of course.

Squares, straight-edges, plumblines and spirit levels are the work of the devil.

Or so the people who built my house must have thought....

 

[sparkwright]

What was all that lot supposed to do?

Was it just a way of jointing all the lighting cables in a central point? Instead of a large junction box with a connector strip?

Or did it do something more complex?

 

[AndyPRK]

where were they fitted then ?

 

[bernardgreen]

From what I recall ( without actually tracing any wiring ) was that the "ring" was looped round the boxes and sockets around the cottage were taken as spurs from these junction boxes.

 

[Gees]

Of course.

Squares, straight-edges, plumblines and spirit levels are the work of the devil.

Or so the people who built my house must have thought....

Same shower that built mine then !! Not a straight line anywhere

 

[bernardgreen]

where were they fitted then ?

Behind a hinged panel in a hallway just below the ceiling

 

[TheGayOwl]

Bernard, I find that photo to be a thing of beauty/ambiguity.. Are you saying that the ring was completed within the JB's and all sockets were 'spurs' as such??

Why do you mention door bell...am I missing something?

Ban, Gees; a true n straight line is a rare thing indeed....makes life more interesting tho!

Regards.

 

[bernardgreen]

It did appear that the ring was through the JBs and each socket was run as a spur from its "own" JB.

The door bell ( 12 volt ) wiring ( 4 cables, tranny, bell and 2 door pushes ) was connected at the the far left hand JB.

In a way it was a thing of beauty as were the diagrams of where cables were buried in the plaster. But the diagrams were not accurate as a subsequent owner discovered when drilling a hole for a curtain rail in the lounge. He hit the cooker supply cable.