VERY short flex - 30 amp strip connectors?

[PrometheusTwingo]

Hi there,

This has happened twice. Removing very old sockets on a refurb and found it impossible to put a new socket on with the flex available. I think the sockets must have been connected and then the wires pulled tight from the wall behind, leaving tiny amounts of wire to play with.

My workaround solution has been to use 30amp strip connectors and a bit of 4mm to extend the wire. In the first case, this has ended up being enclosed in its own box with the extension going directly below to a new socket. In the second, there is plenty of room for the whole thing to fit behind the new socket.

Does this setup pass muster for any future inspections? Any advice? All connections are sound and everything in sound mechanical condition.

Thanks,

M

 

[EFLImpudence]

Yup.

 

[OwainDIYer]

yes, but some sockets have terminals that are much easier to insert the wire into and screw up when the socket is closer into its box, than others.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Removing very old sockets on a refurb and found it impossible to put a new socket on with the flex available

Flex??

 

[securespark]

Why not?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Not so much 'not', more that it's very unusual.

So unusual, in fact, that the chances of it having been installed by a professional electrician are vanishingly small.

So if someone who didn't want to buy, or didn't know about, the usual materials has been rewiring a house, I'd be concerned about cockups - I certainly wouldn't be simply changing accessories during a refurb.

And if it was done by a corner-cutting DIYer what are the odds that he had, or went and bought, 2.5mm² flex?

 

[JohnW2]

My parents and grandparents, and I suspect many others in their generations (and quite probably other generations), called any electrical cable "flex" - and, in their defence, I suppose that none of the cables we are talking about are 'rigid'!

So I think we may be advised to seek clarification from the OP before drawing too many speculative conclusions!

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So I think we may be advised to seek clarification from the OP before drawing too many speculative conclusions!

Good idea.

Perhaps we could ask him.


Oh.....

Removing very old sockets on a refurb and found it impossible to put a new socket on with the flex available

Flex??

 

[JohnW2]

So I think we may be advised to seek clarification from the OP before drawing too many speculative conclusions!

Good idea. Perhaps we could ask him.
Oh.....

Sigh. Yes, I know you've already asked (that's what stimulated this discussion about flex). I should have written "...we may be advised to await clarification from the OP ..."

Kind Regards, John

 

[PrometheusTwingo]

yes indeed, I meant wire.

Many thanks,

M

 

[JohnW2]

yes indeed, I meant wire.

I somewhat doubt that even that will satisfy him Do I take it that you're referring to 'standard' ('twin and earth') house-wiring cable?

Kind Regards, John

 

[PrometheusTwingo]

indeed. Looks like 2.5

Thanks for the reassurance chaps.