When adding a spur to an electrical socket does the new wire need to be protected or can it just go straight into the wall and be plastered over?
Adding a spur to an electrical socket
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The new cable must run in approved zones: horizontally orvertically from the existing and new sockets. You can plaster straight over it but most people put plastic capping to stop the plasterer slashing the cable with his sharp tools.
Are you sure the socket wou are running the spur from is on a ring final circuit?
Are you sure the socket wou are running the spur from is on a ring final circuit?
I have no idea! We haven't had the sockets off yet, just trying to to a bit of research before we start the work.
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Yes avoid doing what some pillock did in my kitchen before I bought the house.
I can't tell how the error was made but there was a spur cable coming down to some sort of electrical fitting before then going on to feed the original spur socket. Taking the front off this fitting would reveal two twin and earth cables so your first assumption might be that it's on the ring, although in this case it wasn't.
What someone then did was tap into it as if it was a ring and hang off it the following: 2 extra double sockets, a single fan oven, a washing machine, a dishwasher, some low voltage cabinet lighting, a cooker hood, the freezer and the hob igniter. All off a single 2.5mm T+E spur cable.
All I can say is I'm glad I found it before anything nasty happened.
I can't tell how the error was made but there was a spur cable coming down to some sort of electrical fitting before then going on to feed the original spur socket. Taking the front off this fitting would reveal two twin and earth cables so your first assumption might be that it's on the ring, although in this case it wasn't.
What someone then did was tap into it as if it was a ring and hang off it the following: 2 extra double sockets, a single fan oven, a washing machine, a dishwasher, some low voltage cabinet lighting, a cooker hood, the freezer and the hob igniter. All off a single 2.5mm T+E spur cable.
All I can say is I'm glad I found it before anything nasty happened.
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