spur

  1. C

    Can I spur a socket from an existing fused spur on a ring main?

    I'm sure this has been asked before, but I just want to confirm: Currently I have a spur leaving a socket in the bedroom, into a 13A Switched FCU and running up to power a double socket in the loft. I now want to locate a socket in the old boiler cupboard/airing cupboard to power a tumble...
  2. D

    Can I supply 2 separate radials from 1 Fused Spur?

    Hello all. I have just bought my first house but it needs a bit of work. I am re-wiring it and I've found the conservatory ring has been spurred off a socket in the house. I am also getting really low insulation resistance readings between L & CPC on the conservatory ring. I've located the...
  3. D

    Extra spur advice - fuse needed?

    Hi, I need to run a spur from a main ring socket, however, it already is supplying a spur ( double unused socket ). Is the only way to disconnect the unused spur? Or can I incorporate a fuse? What's the safe way to do this please? Thanks
  4. Pretty Mouth

    Unusual RCD fused spur

    A recent EICR turned up a fault: an RCD fused spur was feeding a socket and a shower pump, and neither socket or pump had continuity on the CPC. The circuit was also showing low IR between live conductors and earth (0.09 Mohms). I came to do the remedial work and found the reason for the...
  5. L

    RCD fused spur units . Which ??/

    Have not needed one for some time ! Now need to add one in on a small job. Any stand out as been good value etc ?
  6. gmdaly

    new minor works certificate for a fused spur

    Hi, can someone give me some advice RE completing a small works certificate for a fused spur coming from a ring final. 1) In part 2 of the AMD2 small works cert, its wants Zdb supplying the final circuit. Does this mean the Zs for the ring final that I measure or the MaxZs 32A MCB which is 1.1...
  7. Yanman

    Hand dryer spur location

    Hi guys I am wiring Some toilets in an office building and I have the dyson airblade where the cable comes back of the unit. Is it acceptable if I have the spur for hand dryer in an acces panel at the same toilet? Or should be by the hand dryer?
  8. P

    Found a spur on a spur (I think) in my garage

    Hi all, I recently bought a new house and I went to check the installation on my garage. There is a double socket and a fused switch (3A) which is connect to the light. When I opened this fused switch, I noticed it is actually a spur. The way it is wired is that a SWA spur coming from the...
  9. K

    Fused spur keeps tripping breaker

    I've a 13a fused spur which is attached to single socket. The fused spur looks like it is used to power 2 security lights. One night the breaker for my upstairs sockets tripped and after some investigation I discovered it was actually the fused spur in the garage that's causing it. The socket...
  10. W

    Fused Spur and Socket

    Hi, In the example pic, if the double socket was already a single spur off a socket in the ring main, as I understand you can only have a single spur per socket from a ring, could a fused 13A switched spur for a cooker hood be taken from the spurred double socket, or does this go against the...
  11. N

    Decommissoning Switched Fused Spur

    Extremely newbie question here. I'm looking to remove a redundant electric fireplace heater - it's wired into a switched fused spur on the wall, which won't be used again after the heater's removed. The spur is always switched off, and I don't want to remove the actual box it's housed in. Both...
  12. T

    Twin socket from 6mm cable

    Hi everyone, First time posting here and just after some advice. I've got a 6mm cable in my kitchen which isn't currently connected. I'm planning to have an oven and a gas hob. Is It OK to have a twin socket from the 6mm cable and plug my 16A oven and gas hob straight into this? On the...
  13. J

    Garage Electrics - Fitting a light and another socket with fused spur.

    Hi all, I have recently bought a house. The garage is at the end of the garden and has a double socket. The socket is on the ring and not a spur. It has 2 live, 2 neutral and 2 earths. It was basically falling off the wall so want to replace it. The garage has no lighting so I want to fit a...
  14. J

    How add lighting spur? Nuteral is loop at the fitting and live is looped at the switch.

    How is addtionl light spur added spur in the following situation? Nuteral is looped at the fitting and live is looped at the switch. Theres two netural and one switched live at the light fitting, with all live and switched live at the switch.
  15. J

    Can I spur from the feed to a heating controller to include 6 soffitt downlighters?

    This heating controller is powered by 1.5mm T&E from a 6amp breaker. My question is can I spur from a this via a junction box in the roofspace to also power 6 soffit downlighters. I would like to install the dimmer switch in the place of the blanking plate. Can I just point out, I'm only...
  16. Ell704

    can Wires run through a spur

    Can I run 2.5mm and 1.5mm in the same chase going down to a 3amp spur with the 2.5mm just passing through the spur to get to the sockets.
  17. H

    Fused spur tv connection how to disconnect

    Hi I've tried some intense googling on this subject but I think I have the terminology wrong and also don't understand it so can't get an answer. Years ago an electrician installed a wall mounted TV for us and cut the plug off the TV connecting it into the wall I believe via a fused spur (?!)...
  18. RainbowBear154

    Need advice re fused spur switch and installing a Dishwasher

    I wonder if any one can give me some advice. I live in a fairly new build house it's 11 years old. In our kitchen there is a fused spur switch on wall above worktop and below is a socket that's connected to it this is where we have our Washing machine. Over the other side of kitchen there is...
  19. M

    Three 2.5 t&e feeding a socket and a fused spur

    I'm revamping the kitchen electrics, 1980's property. Majority of the sockets have a couple of cables going in/out of them, with the only exceptions being a couple of sockets tee'd off fused spurs and fed by single cables. However, I'm perplexed by one area. By the side of the gas hob there was...
  20. Neptune

    Amp rating on spur - 2.5mm Cable

    Can I please check my understanding on the following. My ring is wired in 2.5mm T&E. It is on a 32 amp MCB and protected by an RCD. I am now contemplating a spur from one of the ring circuits to provide power to an electric hob. The Hob is 2.5KW which I believe, equates to 11 amps. If this is...
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