Hello,
I have a few sockets in my skirting board, which I am planning to move up into the wall to regulation height within safe zones. I've done one already and it was actually pretty straight forward despite my lovely lath and plaster walls...
The sockets are on a ring main, but the cables coming up from the floor were very short. So what I have done is put each end of the cable into a wago box and ran two separate cables up to the pattress box, where they are joined together at the socket. Squeezing two wago junction boxes through a 1 gang socket hole with limited cavity space was a bit fiddly. However, I did this to make it clear that the new socket is on a ring main and not a spur off another socket. In case anyone opens the socket for inspection they will see two cables.
Was this overkill or should I continue doing this for the other sockets I plan to move? It would have been much easier to use just one junction box connecting the ring and running just one cable up to the socket.
I have a few sockets in my skirting board, which I am planning to move up into the wall to regulation height within safe zones. I've done one already and it was actually pretty straight forward despite my lovely lath and plaster walls...
The sockets are on a ring main, but the cables coming up from the floor were very short. So what I have done is put each end of the cable into a wago box and ran two separate cables up to the pattress box, where they are joined together at the socket. Squeezing two wago junction boxes through a 1 gang socket hole with limited cavity space was a bit fiddly. However, I did this to make it clear that the new socket is on a ring main and not a spur off another socket. In case anyone opens the socket for inspection they will see two cables.
Was this overkill or should I continue doing this for the other sockets I plan to move? It would have been much easier to use just one junction box connecting the ring and running just one cable up to the socket.