On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:49:50 GMT, graham
strung together this:

Just a quick question to any electrical experts in here.

Er.....

I want to put a plug socket in my loft, but i'm not sure where to take
it from, as there are no ring main power cables up there, only
lighting cables.
There is however, the enormous cable for my shower!,

No, no and thrice no. Don't do it, full stop.

Also, is this the right way to join to a cable this size, or
indeed, is this meant to be done at all (i've been told, not by an
expert mind, that you should never run anything else from a shower
cable, only the shower).

Correct, don't do it.

The shower is 9.5 kW, so the 10mm cable must have plenty left for a
power circuit, i'd have thought).

Stop thinking, it's ot going to do any of us any good. "Assumption is
the mother of all **** ups".

I guess the alternative is to take a
spur from a socket in one of the bedrooms etc., but I don't want to
upset any decorating. I just want to locate a suitable source already
i the loft.

Not so much an alternative, as the only correct way to do it.
You must have a cupboard or wardrobe somewhere with a socket behind it
or backing onto it. You can easily drill through from a suitable
socket, up through a cupboard and into the loft to a socket. If not,
just whack a length of trunking up the wall as a temporary job and
sink it in the wall next time you decorate that wall.
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SJW
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