plugs sockets

[dickie1971]

how do i go about moving a plug socket and passing under the floor boards

 

[riveralt]

Firstly, where do you want to move it - how far away and how much cable slack is in the rear of the socket? Do you actually have to move or can you run a spur from it.
You give too little information for a definitive answer - but it might help if you find out what type of circuit is the socket on - Ring Final Circuit or Radial Final circuit? This can sometimes but not always be distinguished by the number of cables coming into the rear of the socket.
This may help you
http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:socket_circuits

 

[JohnW2]

...it might help if you find out what type of circuit is the socket on - Ring Final Circuit or Radial Final circuit? This can sometimes but not always be distinguished by the number of cables coming into the rear of the socket.

I'm trying hard to think whether the number of cables could ever answer the question with certainty, and I think the answer is probably 'No' - do you agree?:

1 cable - end of radial (or radial branch) or spur from ring final (but could not itself be part of a ring).
2 cables - ring final or radial final (other than end)
3 cables - ring final with spur or radial with branch
>3 cables - not good practice, but ring final with spurs or radial with branches

Kind Regards, John.

 

[OwainDIYer]

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I'm trying hard to think whether the number of cables could ever answer the question with certainty, and I think the answer is probably 'No' - do you agree?:

1 cable - end of radial (or radial branch) or spur from ring final (but could not itself be part of a ring).
2 cables - ring final or radial final (other than end)
3 cables - ring final with spur or radial with branch
>3 cables - not good practice, but ring final with spurs or radial with branches

1 cable - someone spurred off the electric shower circuit with a junction box.

2 thick cables and some charring round the terminals - someone spurred off the electric shower circuit and didn't use a junction box.

3 cables - radial with 2 branches joined together to make a ring off a radial

4 cables - crossover point of a figure-of-8 ring circuit.

5 cables - crossover point of a figure-of-8 ring circuit with a spur attached

6 cables - it's actually a lighting circuit but someone stuck a socket on it for some reason

etc.

 

[JohnW2]

1 cable ..... 6 cables etc.

Quite - and all those (mainly 'naughty') possibilities go to underline my statement that the number of cables can never indicate with certainty what sort of circuit one is dealing with.

Kind Regards, John.

 

[Paul_C]

Indeed, the only thing one can say for certain just from the number of cables is that if there's only one, then the socket cannot be on a ring (although it might, or might not, be a spur from one).