adding a new socket

[razzler35]

hello everyone,

i am new to this site and would like info on how to add an extra socket in my bedroom. i would appreciate any help i can get please.

my scenario at the moment is that i currently have 2 sockets in my bedroom opposite each other from 1 end of the wall to across. my tv is on the wall and the socket just below it has the cables to the tv etc but i would like to tidy up and make another socket just to the left of the tv onto the wall so that the cables r nice n tidy.

i have not idea what a spur means nor a ring circuit or a junction box.
what do i do? can anyway tell me easy way to do this myself as i like to give it a shot myself rather than paying extra bucks to an electrician!!

pls casn someone help me thanks

Raz
london

 

[ericmark]

Now what answer do you expect? There is a Wiki section which gives a lot of information clearly you should read that. To fit a socket from existing the first job is to find if you can.

Measuring loop impedance is one of the jobs and likely no DIY guy ever does it.

The short cuts taken by the DIY group are in some cases dangerous and to be safe you should use a scheme registered electrician.

When you have a real question which is not answered in Wiki then ask. But no one is going to re-write Wiki specially for you.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

hello everyone,


i have not idea what a spur means nor a ring circuit or a junction box.

It would be best to find out before you start then
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/6.3.2.htm
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/DataSheets/Hager/JB_Guide.pdf

 

[ban-all-sheds]

can anyway tell me easy way to do this myself

• http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=electrical+circuits+101
  
  
• http://kevinboone.net/electricity.html
  
  
• http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html
  
  
• http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:books
  
  
• http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics
  
  

 

[Arthur2shedsJackson]

Sorry Razzler, but you left yourself wide open to those replies.

In your scenario, instead of adding another socket, why don't you just fit one of these to your existing:-

http://www.screwfix.com/p/clipsal-converta-skt-2g-to-3g-polycarbonate/12362

It should help tidy up your wires.

Or, perhaps you could just make up a plugged in extension lead, with the wires running in surface mounted plastic conduit to a surface mounted socket to the left of your TV as you say.
This would mean that you don't actually have to touch the circuit wiring and the extension would be fused at the plug !!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

There was nothing wrong with the replies.

This:

i have not idea what a spur means nor a ring circuit or a junction box.

is not a good basis for doing electrical work - to encourage him to learn is the right response.

 

[Arthur2shedsJackson]

There was nothing wrong with the replies.

This:

i have not idea what a spur means nor a ring circuit or a junction box.

is not a good basis for doing electrical work - to encourage him to learn is the right response.

I was in no way suggesting that there was anything wrong with the replies and if you remove the words"Sorry, but " from my reply, you'll see that I'm singing from exactly the same hymn sheet as you.

However, I do feel sorry for newbies on the Electrical forum, because they don't exactly get let down gently do they?

I agree that reading up on all the links given will help, but for someone starting from a position of not knowing what a spur or junction box is, just reading up isn't going to make them competent, and it's certainly not going to give them the ability or wherewithall to test the impedance of the circuit.

Far better to either encourage them to pay a professional or find a way which doesn't involve interfering with the circuit.