Adding socket into cupboard

[scottpetrie]

Hi
Im fitting a shower pump into my airing cupboard but need a plug socket in there. I have a socket just 3 feet away in the hallway and was hoping I could spur off of that. If thats possible, what am I looking for to know it will be okay?
Thanks

 

[Tigercubrider]

I am no electrician but rather than spurring, it's not massively harder to make it into a ring extension?
Unless it's already a "spur off a spur"?

does a shower pump take a big load?

 

[sparkwright]

Is there no wiring already in the airing cupboard? One would expect immersion wiring or something to be there.

 

[scottpetrie]

Yeh the hot water tank and old immersion is in there

 

[EFLImpudence]

Connect it via an FCU to the immersion switch.

 

[scottpetrie]

So connect it into the wiring board thats on the wall, then to an FCU?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Depends what the wiring board is?

Is there not a switch for the immersion?

 

[scottpetrie]

The wiring comes out of immersion at top of tank then into the wall through an unswitched flex outlet. The actual switch for the immersion is in the kitchen.

 

[terryplumb]

Hi
Im fitting a shower pump into my airing cupboard but need a plug socket in there. I have a socket just 3 feet away in the hallway and was hoping I could spur off of that. If thats possible, what am I looking for to know it will be okay?
Thanks

Show us a pic of the wiring at the socket that you intend to spur from,turn the power off beforehand. And tell us what protects the circuit that it is on ,fuse rating or MCB rating

 

[scottpetrie]

Here is the hallway socket. The fuse in the cupboard for that circuit is 30A.

 

[terryplumb]

Would appear to be a ring final circuit then.You would need to check at that socket that it is actually an integral part of the ring ,and if it is ,you can take a spur from it.
It could be a spur ,feeding another spur, but that's probably unlikely. You need to test to establish.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Yes you can spur off that. Use an FCU with a 5amp fuse in it.

PS. there’s some discolouration on the live (red) wires. May be loose terminals. Check the tightness of all connections.

 

[scottpetrie]

Okay thanks. So can I remove plug from shower pump and wire it into a switched FCU with a flex outlet or. Yeh that discolouration shows up worse in the picture. It was just that the wire had been stripped back to much. Sorted now

 

[Taylortwocities]

Yes. Chop the plug off. Use the fuse in the pump plug in the FCU.

 

[333rocky333]

A new socket would have required Rcd protection whereas a FCU in most cases does not.
Looking at the Solid Green sleeving and mention of 30Amp Fuses its likely your circuit does not have any existing.