Hi,
need some advice here on what is legal/sensible. I went to install a new socket in my kitchen for a new dishwasher and cut the plasterboard and fitted a metal backplate in a position where the mains ring cables were already running and cut the cable to fit into my new socket. Problem is:
1. not enough slack in cables to connect my socket.
2. I fitted it too low (only about 10cm from floor- oops!) I also now don't like the idea of a low socket on a wall behid a dishwasher and think up near the underneath of the worktop is much more sensible..
So now I have a cut mains ring cable sitting inside a metal backplate.
Option 1- Can I use 30A terminal blocks/choc blocks to connect the ring cable together again inside the backplate and fit a blank plate over the front? I'd then run new cable from this up to my new socket to give me the slack I need to fit the new socket.
Option 2- fit a proper junction box under the floorboards and then run a new section of cable up the wall. I prefer this one and feel it would actually be safer but might not be legal as the junction box wouldn't be accessible? or what is deemed as accessible?
Option 3 - fit a junction box on the wall instead of the backplate, but it would just be screwed into the wall and not covered. Doesn't seem sensible?
Option 4 - rewire that whole bit of the ring from one socket to the next, a bit much work me thinks...
Hope that made sense. Any opinion welcome (other than I'm a numpty, I already know that....!)
Cheers.
need some advice here on what is legal/sensible. I went to install a new socket in my kitchen for a new dishwasher and cut the plasterboard and fitted a metal backplate in a position where the mains ring cables were already running and cut the cable to fit into my new socket. Problem is:
1. not enough slack in cables to connect my socket.
2. I fitted it too low (only about 10cm from floor- oops!) I also now don't like the idea of a low socket on a wall behid a dishwasher and think up near the underneath of the worktop is much more sensible..
So now I have a cut mains ring cable sitting inside a metal backplate.
Option 1- Can I use 30A terminal blocks/choc blocks to connect the ring cable together again inside the backplate and fit a blank plate over the front? I'd then run new cable from this up to my new socket to give me the slack I need to fit the new socket.
Option 2- fit a proper junction box under the floorboards and then run a new section of cable up the wall. I prefer this one and feel it would actually be safer but might not be legal as the junction box wouldn't be accessible? or what is deemed as accessible?
Option 3 - fit a junction box on the wall instead of the backplate, but it would just be screwed into the wall and not covered. Doesn't seem sensible?
Option 4 - rewire that whole bit of the ring from one socket to the next, a bit much work me thinks...
Hope that made sense. Any opinion welcome (other than I'm a numpty, I already know that....!)
Cheers.
