Electrical spur extension

[tekkiesteve]

Heaven knows!
" But if you're gonna do it, do it right, right?"

 

[Mick Leek]

Interesting,

Sorry to hijack the post but i have a simular situation.

Need 2 breakers within my MK sentry consumer to power new extension.

There are 6 in there at the moment. used as follows

1, upstairs plugs
2, downstairs plugs
3, upstairs lights
4, downstairs lights
5, cooker, (dont have electric cooker) but there is a story below.
6, spare, but i notice cable in there for shower and cabling goes up stairs to bathroom in case i assume anyone wanted to fit a shower but not conected.

Ok so the old cooker point in the kitchen was removed and a twin gang socket fitted in its place. Because i need 2 new outlets from the consumer i was going to use spare one (dowrated to 5 amp) for lighting. And the one where the old cooker cable is now for the sockets. I was going to move the cooker cable into the downstairs plug socket breaker. Please note this is now a plug socket and the old cooker box was completely removed and a knock out box fitted.

Is this acceptable or not ? if it isnt, i will simply loose the cooker converted socket altogether and manage without it... Sods law though that i will probably mis it if it isnt usable anymore

Cheers

Mick

 

[Adam_151]

Mick,

Its acceptable, a spur from a ring final circuit may be taken form the orgin, and nothing wrong with using oversized cable as long as it con be terminated properly (be very careful to make sure the screw grips down on all conductors... give them a bit of a pull after tightening to make sure)

Remember that if you want to convert it back to cooker point it will need to go back on its own breaker, also it might be rise to put a note in with the certs, or near the cu, so its clear what has been done

 

[Mick Leek]

Cheers Adam,

Yes i planned to do that... the box at the moment hasnt any labeling... had to suss it all out for myself... i noticed an extra 2.5mm red wire on the downstairs ring.. I traced it half way around the house and it eventually came down the stairs wall and disapeared into the cavity...

I issolated the phase and gave it a tug....discovered it was for a previously fitted Spur into an old out house... Taped on the ends and left floating in the cavity

Sorted that and removed wiring...

Mick.