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Hey there,

I'll be building an electrical socket on the other side of the room. While passing a wire through the wall I wonder, does length affect socket safety? Would a long cable going through a 2m long wall need to be protected in anyway to make it safer?

The wall is finished so I'll need to pass in a cable from one socket to the other.

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buzzlightyear said:
is the sockets RCD protected.
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No, standard socket. Here is a picture:

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That's a good sign, you have RCD protection. How confident are you that you can determine whether the socket is on an RFC, or a radial, or whether it's a spur from another socket?

Do you have test equipment?

Edit, Buzz's advice is good - if you aren't sure about things such as cable types and how to install them then I would also say get an electrician in to do this.
 
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DPG said:
That's a good sign, you have RCD protection. How confident are you that you can determine whether the socket is on an RFC, or a radial, or whether it's a spur from another socket?

Do you have test equipment?
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I know how to determine if a socket is a spur socket. I'll only make this one a spur if I verify that the original one is not.

But I don't have test equipment.
 
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DPG said:
That's a good sign, you have RCD protection. How confident are you that you can determine whether the socket is on an RFC, or a radial, or whether it's a spur from another socket?

Do you have test equipment?

Edit, Buzz's advice is good - if you aren't sure about things such as cable types and how to install them then I would also say get an electrician in to do this.
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My main doubt is wether me putting a 2.5mm2 T&E cable from one socket to the other through 2m of wall would be a problem?
 
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DPG said:
Not sure I fully understand the question. A 2m run of T&E shouldn't be a problem no.
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Have you got any photos - what is it about this that concerns you? I'm just concerned I've missed something.
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I don't know, I get a sense that cables going through long stretches of walls should be pined or stuck somewhere, along studs. I don't know if cables dangling within walls is the way to go.
 
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lilimop said:
I don't know, I get a sense that cables going through long stretches of walls should be pined or stuck somewhere, along studs. I don't know if cables dangling within walls is the way to go.
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What is the wall made of? It's pretty unusual to have a 2m long empty void in a wall that would allow the cable to dangle.

When running a T&E cable within walls it needs to be run within the defined safe zones for running cables, it can't just be run anywhere that seems convenient.
 
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