How I can add a new socket in a room with one socket which is already on a ring circuit and it has a spur?

Question

the only outlet available there has a spur on it,which means I have 3 cables out of that point. I want to put a cable behind the skirting board and add a socket on the other wall.

Answer 1

Make the new socket part of your ring cct

Answer 2

Take the 3rd (spur) cable into a FUSED connection unit and from that take it out to however many sockets you like.

Answer 3

Kill the power to your existing socket in that room, after lifting the floorboards etc, remove the faceplate from the existing socket and rerun one of the 2.5mm twin and earth cables from that socket to your new position for the extra socket, run a new piece of 2.5m twin and earth cable between the two sockets, reinstate both socket faceplates and test after renergizing the ring main cicuits as both sockets are now on the same ring main, you could even turn them both into double 13amp sockets if you wish as it is still the same wiring, you don't need to worry about part " P " of the buiulding regs, as you are only altering an existing circuit.

Answer 4

In the UK you can't do much without being a qualified electrician.

I think you can use one spur in a ring main to add a socket(as long as it's not a kitchen or bathroom) or replace broken sockets and switches,and thats about it.

Answer 5

It's congested, but possible and also quite legal. The only restriction on spur sockets is that there shouldn't be more of them than there are sockets on the ring main.