Adding a spur for power in the loft

[amccoll]

Hi,

Newbie here. I'm about to network my house with cat5e and need power in the loft for the network switch. The easiest place to take it from would be the cupboard upstairs that has the water tank in it (its a system with the boiler in the kitchen that feeds this tank i.e its not an immersion heater tank). Underneath there is a junction box that provides power for the central heating pumps (left and right of picture) and power for the tank (middle cable).



There's three mains cables coming into the junction box (which i'm guessing is the socket ring main plus a spur) and the three cables going to the two pumps and tank.

Would you recommend taking another spur from the junction box or do you feel there is enough load here already. Or perhaps extending the ring up into the loft?

Your comments and help would be much appreciated

Regards,

Andy

 

[i=p/u]

depends on how much power you gonna be using in loft, just a fused spur coming off another socket, s the socket you comming off maybe a spur and if so you need and rcd fused spur, but again depends on power you need

 

[tonys]

You guessing wrong, there control wires, your be better off getting an electrician from this forum to do the work for you.

 

[SimpleSimon]

Sorry mate but if the boiler is being fed from that junction box plus a spur I wouldn't want to put too much load on one point.

 

[Short Circuit]

I agree with TonyS, they look more like control cables than a ring - in fact very unlikely they will be a ring going into a box like that! No doubt it will a strip of 15amp connectors inside with the wiring to the pumps that you can see, as well as heating actuator and stats etc They look like 2 x 3 cores and earth, and a 1.5 T&E.

Your house looks fairly new so you have studded walls, and probably dot and dab on the outside walls! Why not have a try and get up one of the other walls from a socket and take the spur from there!

 

[Spudnik]

Whats the W of the networking equipment?

You could always put a 5A socket up there and spur off the lighting.

 

[DurhamSparky]

just about to suggest that!! network gear cant pull more than 2A MAX!! or can it??

 

[Mr.Si]

Depends on if it's just a network switch or if the OP decides to put other stuff up there too, like a file server or a NAS box...