ring main

Hi, First of all, I consider myself a competent person, I do most of my own household electrics, I’m a qualified sound engineer and no stranger to a soldering iron. Is this a spur? …the photos show our conservatory so what you’re seeing used to be an external wall. The dining room behind it...

Is it possible that an open ring, originating at the washing machine isolator, could cause an F17 door lock error on a Hotpoint w/m? The last gas/electrical inspection conducted by my social housing landlord, concluded with the engineer reporting an open continuity test on the kitchen r/m...

I am looking to install a new induction hob in a kitchen island that is currently on gas. The island has a 32 amp ring main running to it which also provides power to other kitchen sockets (kettle, microwave etc). The induction hob being considered is this one...

Hello, I want to add more sockets into the room thus I want to extend the ring main from an existing socket. Currently the socket in the room is wired as such (a socket and a spur to the left of it): My plan would be to do this (use wago connectors to connect to the spur and continue one of...

I've got a Dimplex Oakhurst Opti Myst fire that was working fine until last night when it switched itself off and blew the downstairs ring main. I've tried changing the fuse and removing the bulbs, but it is still blowing the main when switched back on. Has anyone got any idea what I need to...

Hey, We live in a 3 bed house where all the sockets upstairs and downstairs are on one circuit. I've recently renovated the bathroom and switched from an electric shower to it running of the combi. So I now have a spare shower cable, directly below the bathroom is the kitchen, I can see that...

In the process of renovating our kitchen and after removing the faceplate of 1 double socket with the intention of replacing the faceplate and adding a spur I've found there's 4 cables feeding it. 4 live, 4 neutral, 4 earths. All 2.5mm t+e. Now there's two feeding it from above, both I assume...

Looking for some help I have with a ring main. The 32A breaker serving this circuit tripped and wouldn't reset so by a process of elimination, I established (I think) that there is an issue with a cable running between two adjacent sockets (around 2m apart). If the live from either end of this...

I want to create an outside socket for garden use but one of it's uses will be running a Lay-Z-Spa over the summer which run at just over 2000 watts when heating with possible short bursts of 2850W if it happens that the pump, air bubbles and heater are all on (minutes at a time). The Lay-Z-Spa...

Hi, My room currently has two single sockets, each on adjacent walls and am wanting to add additional sockets. In January, I added two double sockets on one wall as fused spur from one original socket and another additional double socket from the other original socket as a spur. The wiring...

Hi all, Trying to add two new sockets and having hard time deciding from where to extend the ring main. There is a socket to the right but I can't quite find where it goes and there is no real way to check without ripping into the wall and there is nothing underneath so it means it runs up...

Imagine a three bedroom house with an upstairs and downstairs, and a garage. It was build circa 1985. Imagine too a consumer unit with two breakers for all the sockets. Let's call them left and right. A. If you turn off the left breaker, all sockets upstairs go off. All sockets downstairs go...

I've recently bought a new Charles Church (Persimmon) home. After moving in i decided to change some upstairs sockets. I isolated first floor sockets with the switch but the sockets in 2 rooms don't switch them off, however the downstairs sockets does in fact switch them off. I spoke to the site...

Hi, Just want to know whether something is compliant with the regs or not. I want to add a light into our conservatory as we do not currently have one. in the wall next to the door to the conservatory is a double socket on the ring main. there is also a fused switch spurred off of the socket...

Hi, I am having my internal kitchen/dining room wall removed and on either side there are plug sockets. I am going to remove the sockets and add one to part of the wall that will remain. The only problem is the cables are not long enough. Am I OK to extend the cables using SpliceLine...

Kitchen Wiring by Megachicken posted 3 Jun 2016 at 5:32 PM Hi Folks, First post so be gentle. I'm trying to plan out my new kitchen and think I am going to need some new electrics. Just wanting to know if this is possible before I go any further into planning where stuff goes. As the image...

I know the limit is one spur from a socket on a ring main. Is this a spur to a double socket? If so, is a spur to two singles back to back in a stud partition ok. I would have thought this would be similar to one double.

Hi, I am getting a lot of conflicting information regarding my query. Can you have a 32 amp ring main (two 2.5mm cables) into a 20 amp DP switch then to a single 2.5mm cable to a single socket? So 20 amp DP switch - 2 cables IN (on the ring) and 1 cable OUT (to a single socket) Thanks