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Rich_wookey
Hi, my 1st post here!
I have three projects to add more sockets, I won't be doing the electric work myself, I'll get in a professional. We have a modern style metal plate sockets & switches, and I know a supplier who sells them at v reasonable prices, but I want to make sure I buy the correct bits. The walls are plaster board dry lined onto blocks. Any cable will be in oval tubing/ trunking and then plastered over. I am told the existing consumer unit requires no modifications to meet regulations (i.e. it has the required breakers)
1. Adding sockets to an existing spur from the ring - I know is against the regs, what I'm suggesting is to replace the existing spur socket with a switched fused unit (13A) and then run three double sockets in series (two at low level, one at high level). i realise total load for all three sockets is limited to 13A - see attached Project 1 diagram
Q - does this meet regulations?
Q - any other solutions?
2. My Home-Office is away from the house, on side of garage, fed from main house consumer unit to its own consumer unit with breakers in the office. There is a 30A ring circuit, currently with 5 double sockets (two in garage), My problem is that with 3 LED monitors, up to 4 laptops, internet router, satellite box and beer fridge, I'm currently daisy chaining extension leads off one double socket! I want to add 4 x double sockets - See Project 2 diagram
I want to extend the ring to 1x double socket and spur off to a 20A double pole switch, then a 13A fuse unit, onto 3 x double sockets, so I can switch off 6 sockets in one go. To extend the Ring, I have purchased 10 x SX2837BLK ME Euro Unswitched International Socket Euro Modules - see https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10xMK-SX...l-Socket-Modules-50x50-Black-16A/222176449824
The existing double socket will be replaced with two of these sockets, making extending the ring easier, by attaching each of the ring cables to one of the new singe sockets, and extending each side of the ring from there. These sockets will be useful, because I have some IT equipment with Euro plugs, so I won't need adaptors
Q - does this meet regulations?
Q - should I switch the positions of the 20A switch and 13A fuse units? I thought not because the 20A switch has larger screw terminals, the size found in double sockets
Q - any other solutions?
3. Adding an extension block with 6 sockets to the supply, via a new fused flex outlet (13A) with a master switch, so I can switch off 6 audio visual units with one switch - See Project 3 diagram, again total load is limited to 13A.
The start point is a double socket on one wall, I want to add a new double socket above the original into the ring as per the diagram, the run a cable horizontally around the corner to the other wall, where it will be accessible, to a 20A double pole switch, then a 13A fuse unit, to a flex output unit (these three units are mounted in a double socket sized front plate)
Q - does this meet regulations?
Q - Is it OK to run the cable around the corner of the two walls?
Q - should I switch the positions of the 20A switch and 13A fuse units? I thought not, because the 20A switch has larger screw terminals, the size found in double sockets
Q - any other solutions?
Advise welcome
Thanks
Rich
I have three projects to add more sockets, I won't be doing the electric work myself, I'll get in a professional. We have a modern style metal plate sockets & switches, and I know a supplier who sells them at v reasonable prices, but I want to make sure I buy the correct bits. The walls are plaster board dry lined onto blocks. Any cable will be in oval tubing/ trunking and then plastered over. I am told the existing consumer unit requires no modifications to meet regulations (i.e. it has the required breakers)
1. Adding sockets to an existing spur from the ring - I know is against the regs, what I'm suggesting is to replace the existing spur socket with a switched fused unit (13A) and then run three double sockets in series (two at low level, one at high level). i realise total load for all three sockets is limited to 13A - see attached Project 1 diagram
Q - does this meet regulations?
Q - any other solutions?
2. My Home-Office is away from the house, on side of garage, fed from main house consumer unit to its own consumer unit with breakers in the office. There is a 30A ring circuit, currently with 5 double sockets (two in garage), My problem is that with 3 LED monitors, up to 4 laptops, internet router, satellite box and beer fridge, I'm currently daisy chaining extension leads off one double socket! I want to add 4 x double sockets - See Project 2 diagram
I want to extend the ring to 1x double socket and spur off to a 20A double pole switch, then a 13A fuse unit, onto 3 x double sockets, so I can switch off 6 sockets in one go. To extend the Ring, I have purchased 10 x SX2837BLK ME Euro Unswitched International Socket Euro Modules - see https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10xMK-SX...l-Socket-Modules-50x50-Black-16A/222176449824
The existing double socket will be replaced with two of these sockets, making extending the ring easier, by attaching each of the ring cables to one of the new singe sockets, and extending each side of the ring from there. These sockets will be useful, because I have some IT equipment with Euro plugs, so I won't need adaptors
Q - does this meet regulations?
Q - should I switch the positions of the 20A switch and 13A fuse units? I thought not because the 20A switch has larger screw terminals, the size found in double sockets
Q - any other solutions?
3. Adding an extension block with 6 sockets to the supply, via a new fused flex outlet (13A) with a master switch, so I can switch off 6 audio visual units with one switch - See Project 3 diagram, again total load is limited to 13A.
The start point is a double socket on one wall, I want to add a new double socket above the original into the ring as per the diagram, the run a cable horizontally around the corner to the other wall, where it will be accessible, to a 20A double pole switch, then a 13A fuse unit, to a flex output unit (these three units are mounted in a double socket sized front plate)
Q - does this meet regulations?
Q - Is it OK to run the cable around the corner of the two walls?
Q - should I switch the positions of the 20A switch and 13A fuse units? I thought not, because the 20A switch has larger screw terminals, the size found in double sockets
Q - any other solutions?
Advise welcome
Thanks
Rich
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