Relocating a double socket

[Jupiter01]

I am building a bedroom closet out of a timber structure (lined with plasterboard) and this means that the current sockets will be enclosed within this wardrobe. I would like to relocate this to the outside of this wardrobe.

As well as ensuring that the extended cable takes a safe route to the new location and I can use conduit for that, I have a couple of questions please:

How should I join the existing cables to the extended cables?
How should I terminate the existing socket given that it will have these cables extended out of it?

Thanks in advance

 

[winston1]

The best way of joining cables is to solder them and then cover the join with self amalgamating tape. The second best way is wago connectors. The existing socket position can be fitted with a blanking plate.

 

[Jupiter01]

When fitting a blanking plate, how do the extended cables exit this and enter the trunking?

 

[Sureitsoff?]

would it be simpler to leave the existing socket in place and run a spur to the new socket? using the old socket as the "connection point"

 

[Jupiter01]

I could spur off this, unless it's already spurred? I will know whether this is the case on the weekend when I start the project.
If this was possible, is it a case of clearing our some of the plaster below the socket to route the extension cable into the conduit?

I was wondering if there was a blanking plate (or another way) to neatly extend this new cable out and into the conduit.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

there are blanking plates https://www.toolstation.com/axiom-blank-plate/p66843 to cover the hole but you will still have to join the new cable to the old so why not just use the old socket as the junction box and plate combined and run a cable to the new socket location
if you decide on using a blank plate and removing the socket you can use these to connect existing cables to the new one(s)https://www.toolstation.com/wago-221-3-way-compact-lever-connectors/p46660

 

[Jupiter01]

But the gotcha might be that the existing socket is already spurred?

assuming it isn’t, I will need to chip away some plaster below the socket to make way for the extended cable coming out of the socket. Have I understood this correctly?

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

I suspect you are making too many assumptions. The first thing to do may be to look what is behind the socket. It will give you a much better starting point.

This may be a ring or may be a spur or may be a radial. You really need to work out which.

Ther will be a metal back box (probably). You may find this alters your picture of how you will run the new cable.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

But the gotcha might be that the existing socket is already spurred?

assuming it isn’t, I will need to chip away some plaster below the socket to make way for the extended cable coming out of the socket. Have I understood this correctly?

if the existing socket has a metal back box, most of them have the ability to have a cable exit to the side of the box, above and below the centreline ie
https://www.toolstation.com/metal-box-2-gang/p77591 so you can run your new conduit to the side( the linked one has two different size holes for different size conduit so use the easiest, usually the biggest and have the conduit go just inside the box by a few mm