Fused spur

[mikehammer69]

Why don't youu ever just answer instead of picking at other people's suggestions?

 

[pete01]

And I believe that is allowed to be a double gang socket but you can't run a single gang off a 2.5mm spur to another single gang socket.

I am not an electrician though...

Thats right, I think you used to be able to but they scrapped that idea, not sure when.

@securespark might tell is if we ask nicely, I'll guess 14th edition.

 

[pete01]

In our old house in the bedroom there are 2 single sockets either side of the bed that are basically an extension lead running under the floor popping up next to the only socket in the room with the extension lead terminating in a 3pin plug.
I wish to replace this with a proper fused spur to the bedside sockets.
Are there any double sockets with one side being a 3pin and a fused switch other than the 45amp cooker ones, or do I have to install 2 single boxes?
The existing socket is a ring btw

Oh I forgot newly installed sockets must be rcd protected.

32 amp and under before morqthana has a nose bleed.

 

[ebee]

It used to be allowed to run two spurs of 2.5 T & E on a 2.5mm ring from any point on that ring or for any cable on that ring using a junction box for example if each one was to a single socket or FCU or to one only such as a twin socket.
But that change to 1 twin or 1 single or 1 FCU and I think it was to avoid the possibillity of any future spurred single socket being changed in the future to become up to two twin sockets on a single spur probably by accident (or ignorance) therefore additional possibillity of a calamity

 

[securespark]

Thats right, I think you used to be able to but they scrapped that idea, not sure when.

@securespark might tell is if we ask nicely, I'll guess 14th edition.

Yeah, that's right.

14th Ed.

A40 "...Not more than two socket-outlets, or one twin socket-outlet, or one stationary appliance, shall be fed from each non-fused spur."

The 13th Ed. stipulates "...not more than two socket-outlets or one fixed appliance..."

No mention of twin sockets.
I know for a fact they were around in 1955 (the date the 13th Edition was introduced), but they were very rarely fitted. Singles were king.

You would have thought twins would get a mention in the regs, even if they were rare, but no.