So basically what everyone is saying is that i need to channel the wall from an existing socket. And replaster. Its only just been plastered just before we moved in. Damn
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FFS- Why do you continue to ask inane and frankly stupid questions.
Here's what you do- 2 hours work.
Decide which 1st floor socket is the easiest to run a 2.5mm twin and earth cable from.
Open up the route (lift floor boards) between the socket you will spur from and a 13a fused spur/ or single plug socket that you will be installing at face height / behind or below the TV location.
Run cable under floors from A-> B, B being the floor point below the TV location. Exit floor with cable, buy some MT2 trunking and a MT2 trunking adapted single 30mm surface profile back box.
Terminate cable, at both ends, isolating the fuse for the supply at the fuse board.
Job done, all in slightly less time than the number of hours wasted by you and concerned 'others' on this thread.
If you haven't got the ability to do the job, pay someone else to do it or risk Xmas in A&E.
As I have already mentioned, if you have a 1st floor airing cupboard, you have a natural cable route between the 1st floor void (where cables for the 1st floor ring circuits will be) and the loft area- If you don't want trunking, run the cable via this route.
Rocket science, it isn't
Here's what you do- 2 hours work.
Decide which 1st floor socket is the easiest to run a 2.5mm twin and earth cable from.
Open up the route (lift floor boards) between the socket you will spur from and a 13a fused spur/ or single plug socket that you will be installing at face height / behind or below the TV location.
Run cable under floors from A-> B, B being the floor point below the TV location. Exit floor with cable, buy some MT2 trunking and a MT2 trunking adapted single 30mm surface profile back box.
Terminate cable, at both ends, isolating the fuse for the supply at the fuse board.
Job done, all in slightly less time than the number of hours wasted by you and concerned 'others' on this thread.
If you haven't got the ability to do the job, pay someone else to do it or risk Xmas in A&E.
As I have already mentioned, if you have a 1st floor airing cupboard, you have a natural cable route between the 1st floor void (where cables for the 1st floor ring circuits will be) and the loft area- If you don't want trunking, run the cable via this route.
Rocket science, it isn't
Ohhhhhh. wheres your handbag.
Cheers anyway I wont waste anymore of anyones time.
Cheers anyway I wont waste anymore of anyones time.
Right i've just realised something. This will be my last question on the subject. I have noticed there is a plug in the 3rd bedroom that backs on to the master bedroom wardrobe. Could I spur from that, drill a hole through into the back of the wardrobe, go up through the ceiling in the built in wardrobe into the loft and come back down into the master bedroom into the tv. Obviously fitting a socket ceiling level. If so is it just twin and earth cable i use and a switched socket. There is also a redundant aerial in the loft that i can use for reception. Last question honest.
Oh god. I just come to turn the ring main sockets off in the fuse box and theres no trip switches. How the hell do i just disable the ring main sockets?
This is not meant to happen! im sure!
This is not meant to happen! im sure!
How the hell do the fuses trip if theres no trip switches. You must understand we only been in this house a couple of weeks and tryin to find out how everything works. Obviously its an old fuse box.
if it is good old fassioned fuses then most likely you pull them out. Ideally you should do this with the main switch off but failing that at least make sure you keep load to a minimum while pulling the fuse out.
post a picture if you are unsure.
post a picture if you are unsure.
Is it quite easy to replace this fuse box with a modern day one. Or is that an electricians job?
Right, can someone just tell me how to wire the socket up and i wont bother any of you guys again. Obviously, I use twin and earth 2.5mm. Does the brown wire connect into the red terminal of the socket and the blue to the black terminal in the socket? The socket i am spring from is switched so i need to go to the constant live don't I?
And the socket that the tv is to be plugged into. Is it best to be a switched socket, a switched fcu oran unswitched socket?
And the most important wires.. the ones to be sleeved in green yellow sleeving.
It worries me a bit that OP thought there was switched live on the back of a socket. Lets hope he DOES know the way to connect this up safely even if it doesn't comply with regulations.
And twin and earth on a 32 amp MCB up the inside of a wardrobe fills me with concern. What mechanical protection will be needed ?
You really should have known this before you started planning the job.
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