Hi. I've got some floorboards up in the front bedroom of my two-bedroom house and have mapped out all of the wires. The vast majority are, I'm fairly sure, for the lighting (downstairs ceilings and switches, plus landing light and switch), and these are all to one corner of the room.
I identified ONE cable originating alone from another corner of the room directly above a socket downstairs, and this runs across the room and heads directly for the only socket in that room. I lose sight of it a few floorboards from the wall, so there's uncertainty - but there isn't really anywhere else for it to go. Behind the socket facing, I find THREE cables - all wired in as you'd expect (L+L+L, N+N+N, E+E+E). Two of them enter the mounting box through one hole, and one through another.
So my first thought was that there's a spur taken from this socket to somewhere else, right? Now, there is only one other socket in the whole of the upstairs, and that's in the back bedroom, only a few feet away from the socket in the front bedroom, through some walls of course.
Behind that socket, in the back bedroom, I was expecting to find ONE cable - if it was on the spur from the front bedroom. But in fact there were three again!
So to summarise, upstairs has only TWO plug sockets in total; one in each bedroom. Both of these are wired with THREE t&e cables each.
Can you please suggest what this could mean? Must there be a spur coming from both of these sockets? If so, I can't think where they go to! I haven't mapped out the downstairs electrics yet so it's possible that these two upstairs sockets each send spurs to downstairs sockets. But that seems pretty strange to do.
Or is there alternative explanation?
Thanks,
I identified ONE cable originating alone from another corner of the room directly above a socket downstairs, and this runs across the room and heads directly for the only socket in that room. I lose sight of it a few floorboards from the wall, so there's uncertainty - but there isn't really anywhere else for it to go. Behind the socket facing, I find THREE cables - all wired in as you'd expect (L+L+L, N+N+N, E+E+E). Two of them enter the mounting box through one hole, and one through another.
So my first thought was that there's a spur taken from this socket to somewhere else, right? Now, there is only one other socket in the whole of the upstairs, and that's in the back bedroom, only a few feet away from the socket in the front bedroom, through some walls of course.
Behind that socket, in the back bedroom, I was expecting to find ONE cable - if it was on the spur from the front bedroom. But in fact there were three again!
So to summarise, upstairs has only TWO plug sockets in total; one in each bedroom. Both of these are wired with THREE t&e cables each.
Can you please suggest what this could mean? Must there be a spur coming from both of these sockets? If so, I can't think where they go to! I haven't mapped out the downstairs electrics yet so it's possible that these two upstairs sockets each send spurs to downstairs sockets. But that seems pretty strange to do.
Or is there alternative explanation?
Thanks,