This is playing on my mind.
While the floorboards have been accessible I have mapped the cables of the top floor of my 3 storey house. One the third floor there is one cable coming up from the second floor that links to 6 sockets across two rooms in a series i.e two cables in each socket and one into the last. There are definitely no other cables connected to it and no switched fused sockets.
That made me think it was a radial circuit although I've read here that they might also be spurs off spurs particularly as 3 seem to have been added in.
I've had an electrician in who has put in a new consumer unit and has done a periodic yet and says it's all fine. He says I've got 3 ring mains - ground floor, kitchen and upstairs.
When I asked him how the upstairs could be a ring main if the last socket only has one cable in it, and that I understood you can't have a spur off a spur he looked at me blankly. Maybe I don't know what I'm on about as I know a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Would spurs off spurs show up on the tests? Essentially he says it's passed the tests and it's safe so why am I worried.
I've had a bad experience with an electrician on my kitchen and had to have someone out to rectify the work so perhaps I'm being unduly concerned. He's done a neat job and it's being certified so should I just be satisfied with that? Thanks.
While the floorboards have been accessible I have mapped the cables of the top floor of my 3 storey house. One the third floor there is one cable coming up from the second floor that links to 6 sockets across two rooms in a series i.e two cables in each socket and one into the last. There are definitely no other cables connected to it and no switched fused sockets.
That made me think it was a radial circuit although I've read here that they might also be spurs off spurs particularly as 3 seem to have been added in.
I've had an electrician in who has put in a new consumer unit and has done a periodic yet and says it's all fine. He says I've got 3 ring mains - ground floor, kitchen and upstairs.
When I asked him how the upstairs could be a ring main if the last socket only has one cable in it, and that I understood you can't have a spur off a spur he looked at me blankly. Maybe I don't know what I'm on about as I know a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Would spurs off spurs show up on the tests? Essentially he says it's passed the tests and it's safe so why am I worried.
I've had a bad experience with an electrician on my kitchen and had to have someone out to rectify the work so perhaps I'm being unduly concerned. He's done a neat job and it's being certified so should I just be satisfied with that? Thanks.