On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:03:34 -0800 (PST), adder1969
wrote:
On Dec 13, 12:40 pm, wrote:
We have just moved into a new 1960s house and the upstairs ring main
has been extended into the loft by drilling a hole through the wall of
the back of a socket in one of the bedrooms into the airing cupboard.
2 X 2.5mm T+E then loops round the loft and back to the socket. So..
in the back of my socket I have 4 pairs of wires attached.
This to me seems wrong. I would have added a junction box in the
airing cupboard and then run one of the existing wires to that. I
would then loop from there round the loft and back to the socket.
Can anyone confirm if the way it's been done is acceptable. I would
have thought that this setup would mean an imbalance in the current
travelling round the ring.
Cheers.
If's it's a double socket individually wired then it sounds fine to
me.
How do you mean ,individually wired ? It's part of a ring and
another ring has been added to that socket with who knows how many
sockets on it . Thats not the way to extend a ring
afaik .