"antgel" wrote:

It certainly does. However, I have a little problem with slack. I'd
like both new sockets to be to the right of the original. This means
that of the two cables entering the existing socket, the cable on the
right will have to enter a socket quite a distance from where it is
now. I can't run it diagonally. There's no room between the
plasterboard and brick for a junction box. Is the best way of doing
this to sink a junction box into the wall above the existing socket and
run a new cable from there to the right-most one? And does it matter
that this cable will be just _above_ all three sockets, not
horizontally between them? Surely nobody would drill _there_. :-P

To avoid all wiring problems stack the sockets vertically (sockets are
still aligned above one another in conventional horizontal alignment)
, one existing ring cable comes into top socket, one goes into bottom
socket, new cable links top socket to middle socket and middle socket
to bottom socket. No slack problems, no wire physical protection
problems, ring remains complete, no spurs, diagonal wiring or junction
boxes, simple wiring with two cores per socket terminal, lots of space
for cables to emerge from plug tops too (surprisingly). Might look
strange but I've doubled up sockets like this for years - never done a
triple though.


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