Getting Feed to socket from light switch

[Raul]

Hi,

I have no sockets in a room apart from a light swich.

I would like to get a power feed from a light switch to power a socket.

How can I do this?

Thanks

 

[Gaz the Sparky]

There is No possible way of doing what you are saying.
lighting and socket circuits are two separate circuits.

The only way of installing sockets is to spur off an existing socket or lift the floor boards and find the socket circuit and extend that to install your extra sockets

 

[Raul]

Thanks but there must be a negative & positive I can get from the light switch?

 

[Gaz the Sparky]

Did you not read what I had said

A light switch only has a live and earth there No Neutral

You should never connect a socket to a lighting circuit because lighting circuits are not designed to take such loads.

 

[Raul]

It's for a shaver socket.

I understand for low currents it is ok.

 

[Gaz the Sparky]

please read other post

 

[Steve]

It's for a shaver socket.

I understand for low currents it is ok.

YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

AT a light switch there is A LIVE and ANOTHER LIVE.

They might be coloured RED and BLACK, but believe me when i say, they are BOTH LIVE.

You CANNOT CONNECT any appliance or outlet directly to a lightswitch.

THERE IS NO NEUTRAL. No appliance will work without a neutral.

EDIT: i have read raul's other post, why did he create 2 threads about the sme thing? because he didnt get the answer he wanted? anyway, i will leave the above sans large text for reference of future DIYers.

And some installs will have a neutral present at the switch, BUT it wont be connected to the switch itself.

 

[rastan]

actually...it is possible to have a live and neutral at a light switch ....but what he is asking for is still highly dangerous and it is safer to put in a new circuit...if not,,,theres always an extension lead.........

 

[Spark123]

I think most people here know that it is possible to have the neutral jointed at the light switch, but given the feeling myself and a few others probably got from the OP I think the advice was sound, there is a greater consequence for error playing with mains electricity in a bathroom. Btw adding a shaver socket is notifiable to LABC under Part P.
Using an extension lead in a bathroom is imo dangerous as it imports an exposed conductive part which may not be connected to the local supplementary bonding of the location. The supply will not be electrically separate from the mains and can pose a risk of 230v being apparent under single fault conditions within the special location when your body resistance may be lower.

 

[securespark]

actually...it is possible to have a live and neutral at a light switch ....but what he is asking for is still highly dangerous and it is safer to put in a new circuit...if not,,,theres always an extension lead.........

Joke, right??

You don't need a new circuit for a shaver socket...

Numerical Spark (!) - I was going to post the same, but not sure this is a bathroom. Needless to say, you are dead right. No sockets in bathrooms apart from shaver sockets.

Just to be a technical pedant... if you have a tungsten filament lamp, when the light is off, the switch wire returns a neutral to the switch.....

 

[alephoneman]

Powering anything from the light switch would have the light bulb in series with it! This is not useful!
If you are really desperate, power can be taken off the ceiling rose, keeping in mind the limited current rating of the lighting circuit. Connecting that to a standard power socket is, however, inviting future trouble. Someone is bound to plug a hair dryer into int!

 

[securespark]

Are you fitting a 1G style shaver socket, or the 2G style?