My house has a loft conversion. The loft has its own fuse box with trip fuses - one each for the lighting and plug socket circuits.
Half the lights on the floor below have stopped working. My electrician has lifted the floor as much as is possible and thinks the fault lies under the top bathroom floor. He says the loft converters have trapped cables or the older connectors have come loose? He has isolated the half of the circuit that does not work. He intends to run a new supply to the other end of the middle floor lighting circuit and thus isolate the damaged area. To achieve this he will have to run a new supply in a channel cut across the newly decorated stairwell. The middle floor light will then have two circuits joied together instead of one single loop.
He has temporarily reconnected power to the damaged light circuit by plugging a 5amp fused plug into the loft conversion's plug circuit.
To avoid massive upheaval and expensive redecoration I would like him to connect a 15amp spur from the loft conversion plug circuit and run the half of the middle floor lights from this supply instead.
He says this would work but prefers the correct way of doing it.
He also says that running a light circuit off a 15 amp fused spur like this can lead to the light bulbs popping more often.
1. Is the 15amp spurred off the 30 amp circuit a viable solution?
2.Is he right about the popping lights? Seems odd to me.
Advice greatly appreciated to avoid MASSIVE redec and muck and angry wife!
Half the lights on the floor below have stopped working. My electrician has lifted the floor as much as is possible and thinks the fault lies under the top bathroom floor. He says the loft converters have trapped cables or the older connectors have come loose? He has isolated the half of the circuit that does not work. He intends to run a new supply to the other end of the middle floor lighting circuit and thus isolate the damaged area. To achieve this he will have to run a new supply in a channel cut across the newly decorated stairwell. The middle floor light will then have two circuits joied together instead of one single loop.
He has temporarily reconnected power to the damaged light circuit by plugging a 5amp fused plug into the loft conversion's plug circuit.
To avoid massive upheaval and expensive redecoration I would like him to connect a 15amp spur from the loft conversion plug circuit and run the half of the middle floor lights from this supply instead.
He says this would work but prefers the correct way of doing it.
He also says that running a light circuit off a 15 amp fused spur like this can lead to the light bulbs popping more often.
1. Is the 15amp spurred off the 30 amp circuit a viable solution?
2.Is he right about the popping lights? Seems odd to me.
Advice greatly appreciated to avoid MASSIVE redec and muck and angry wife!
