My house's central consumer unit is located inside the under-stairs cupboard. Recently an alarm engineer installed a fused spur in order to power up an alarm control panel.
So now there is:
I was wondering what is the best way to get a single power socket inside the cupboard, in order to power a Nest wireless thermostat (to be fixed outside the cupboard).
Would it be lawful and "ok" to install a connection box and a single socket on the cable between the consumer unit and the existing FCU ?
That would make the system as follows:
Any thoughts or alternative ideas welcome. One alternative I thought would be to use the existing FCU box as a connection box and get another cable out going to a socket. It'll be a 3A fused outlet but that would be fine for the Nest thermostat.
Like so:
So now there is:
Code:
[Consumer unit]->spur cable->[3A FCU]->cable->[alarm box]
I was wondering what is the best way to get a single power socket inside the cupboard, in order to power a Nest wireless thermostat (to be fixed outside the cupboard).
Would it be lawful and "ok" to install a connection box and a single socket on the cable between the consumer unit and the existing FCU ?
That would make the system as follows:
Code:
[Consumer unit]->spur cable->[connection box]*-->[3A FCU]->cable->[alarm box]
*-->[socket]->cable->[nest thermostat]
Any thoughts or alternative ideas welcome. One alternative I thought would be to use the existing FCU box as a connection box and get another cable out going to a socket. It'll be a 3A fused outlet but that would be fine for the Nest thermostat.
Like so:
Code:
[Consumer unit]->spur cable->[3A FCU]*-->cable1->[alarm box]
*-->cable2->[socket]->[nest thermostat]
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