I had an electrician install a socket in the cupboard under the stairs right next to the consumer unit.
I asked him if he could do it without lifting floorboards or disturbing newly-decorated walls in the living room where the nearest socket was, and that I wasn't caring about the cable being on the skirting board or him using a surface-mounted socket
Curious as to how he had done it I took the cover off the consumer unit and note that he took a connection from the 15 amp MCB which feeds the downstairs sockets, which means now there are three wires going into this, the two original being I would imagine the feed and return for the ring main sockets and the new one.
I would imagine he did this becauses there were no spare fuseways.
Is this permissable and is it perfectly safe?
I asked him if he could do it without lifting floorboards or disturbing newly-decorated walls in the living room where the nearest socket was, and that I wasn't caring about the cable being on the skirting board or him using a surface-mounted socket
Curious as to how he had done it I took the cover off the consumer unit and note that he took a connection from the 15 amp MCB which feeds the downstairs sockets, which means now there are three wires going into this, the two original being I would imagine the feed and return for the ring main sockets and the new one.
I would imagine he did this becauses there were no spare fuseways.
Is this permissable and is it perfectly safe?