no return on new circuit

[andydo]

just had a loft conversion done-the electrician fitted 2 sockets and new lighting. I've since had to add an extra socket and found the socket I picked up from had supply to it but the return was just an uncapped live length of 2.5 going nowhere! Didn't even look like it has been cut-more like the end of the reel. So, do I get the guy back and risk him having to rip up new carpets/plasterboard to complete the circuit or live with a single cable supply where the greatest load is likely to be a hairdryer?

 

[Steve]

So he picked up the supply from a bedroom below, i assume? And ran a cable up to a socket, and left the return to the ring main just hanging?

Have a look in the socket he took the supply from in the bedroom. are there 3 cables attached to the socket plate? If so, it is safe to simply remove that hanging cable, and live with the single cable, it is an unfused spur, perfectly safe.

 

[andydo]

thanks for the reply.Yes, he broke in to the supply from the bedroom below but under where the new stairs now are-so impossible to check,but I seem to remember seeing 2x2.5 feeds (as well as the lighting feeds) going up to the loft in the new studded wall so I'm a little bothered as to where the rest of the return is!

 

[Steve]

you might like to give the electrician a call, and ask him what he's done, "for future reference", see what answers you get.

 

[andydo]

good idea, thanks

 

[Steve]

and ask him what he meant to achieve by hiding that socket where it is no longer acccessible - this is against the regs, though this may not be his fault - it should have been moved.