"Mark" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:37:21 GMT, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:


"Mark" wrote in message
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Some time ago I fitted a new socket outlet in my son's bedroom. I had
no desire to go into the wall and hook into the existing ring main so
I decided to tap in somewhere else. Basically I tapped into the
immersion heater supply in the airing cupboard, (fused 30amp at the
consumer unit). Then I went through a 13amp fused spur, then up into
the attic, and then down into the bedroom using mini trunking, and
finally connected an RCD protected double socket. Everything fine.

Now I need to do the same in my daughter's room. My question is, if I
wire in parallel from the feed to the socket in my son's room do I
need to use another RCD protected socket? Or will the RCD in my son's
room provide protection for a regular parallel socket.

Safety is paramount of course but I don't want to spend 20 odd quid on
another RCD socket if I don't need to.

Incidentally the sockets are only for hi-fi/TV so I doubt the combined
load will ever exceed 5 amps.

Thanks

Years ago (and I am not grey haired yet) when I was a child my Dad put
another socket in my bedroom for the TV I got as an Xmas present. It was
one
of the things I failed his PIR this week as this socket ran from the
immersion. He wants to sell his house and I will have to work like hell
over
Xmas to put the electrics right due to these type of bodges.

Do the job properly or not at all. Break into the ring main.

Adam

Sorry, did you intend to answer my question or just lecture me on what
you consider to be the correct way to do the job?

Shouldn't you be in the airing cupboard fixing the "bodge"?

If "ARWadsworth" is doing a PIR, then he is probably a qualified
electrician, so his "lecture" as you put it, is not necessarily the way he
"consider[s] to be the correct way to do the job" but may well be the legal
way to do so.

By your comments earlier, it does sound like you should either leave it
alone and get a qualified electrician to do it, or just ask questions BEFORE
you start, and only tackle the job once you are confident you have learned
all you need to know to complete the job safely.

Throwing a strop when someone suggests what you have posted is wrong, is not
going the right way towards getting help.

Sparks...