Help with getting Sockets in the loft

[KeithESSEX]

Hello,

i was just wondering if anybody could help me, i am setting a CCTV system up in the loft, but i need acouple of electric sockets up there.

What is the best way of doing this?

Many Thanks

 

[Lectrician]

Locating the nearest socket and looping the ring up!

I hope you are not installing a DVR in the loft!

Summer + Loft = HEAT
Heat + DVR =

 

[Spark123]

Spur from a ring socket circuit? You can have one double socket on a spur, if you place a fused spur unit before the first socket you can have more.

 

[KeithESSEX]

Cheers, but, Wouldn't all the socket wiring all be in the 1st floor walls, how do i spur off wiring within 1st floor walls or is it as easy as dropping a wire down between the walls to a socket and spurring of that?

 

[Spark123]

Providing the socket you are spurring from is on the ring it will involve running the cable up from the socket in the safe zones readme up to the socket in the loft.

 

[Lectrician]

Many internal upstairs walls are stud partitions - these can have cables dropped inside them. There will usually be a noggin of wood half way up the wall though which will require notching over.

How old is your house? Hollow lathe and plaster walls have no noggins appart from huge diagonal ones on large walls.

Is there a socket on a wall backing onto an airing cupboard, wardrobe etc etc? This can be an easy way aswell.

 

[KeithESSEX]

House is about 10 years old with Plasterboard walls, i have no sockets near wardrobe or cupboards or near the airing cupboard, the only one i can probaly use is a single socket on an internal wall but this will involve coming down from the loft, hopefully there will not be any horizontal noggings in the way!

 

[Lectrician]

I think there will be!

Keep the notch over the noggin verticaly inline with the socket. Either on the front or reverse of wall to comply (but on the front to be perfect!).

Push a braddawl up either side of the wall to give you a mark int he loft where to drill down (central to these two holes!). A spark would use one bradawl hole and measure - but best to be safe!

Drop a string/weight down (or rod if insulated).

Cut a tiny notch over the noggin - will generally be a 2" noggin. Use a bradawl to locate noggin - usually about 150mm below OLD switch height, or bang in line with the 1.2m to TOP of switch new height.