Can this be done in a home situation (probably a simple answer)?

[Brendan Richman]

This will either be a yes or no question, and for an experience electrician - will hopefully be able to answer quickly and concisely!

Anyway... I have so far basically taken an 4-gang ordinary extension lead, cut the 'extension' end off, pushed the cable through a wall, and terminated with a plain 2-gang electrical socket screwed onto the wall (the plug was in a cupboard, so it looked good to have another socket to use in the living room). This is works fine, and want to do this in another room where another cupboard resides.

My question is could I daisy chain two wall socket units together to make 4 effective sockets in two units from one mains cable going in? The appliances that will be plugged into these are only small (phone chargers, lamps etc.).

Thanks in advance! And please ask for anymore information that will help!

Brendan

 

[Electricalserv]

This will either be a yes or no question, and for an experience electrician - will hopefully be able to answer quickly and concisely!

Anyway... I have so far basically taken an 4-gang ordinary extension lead, cut the 'extension' end off, pushed the cable through a wall, and terminated with a plain 2-gang electrical socket screwed onto the wall (the plug was in a cupboard, so it looked good to have another socket to use in the living room). This is works fine, and want to do this in another room where another cupboard resides.

My question is could I daisy chain two wall socket units together to make 4 effective sockets in two units from one mains cable going in? The appliances that will be plugged into these are only small (phone chargers, lamps etc.).

Thanks in advance! And please ask for anymore information that will help!

Brendan

What a strange way to by-pass part p...???

So you have basically plugged an extention lead into a socket unravelled it and terminated it in a socket.... strange

 

[Brendan Richman]

Yeah I admit it is - but we basically wanted a wall socket, and since there was an almost un-used one on the other side of the wall (roughly), and me not overly wanting to deal directly with mains cable and the like, since I'm not that confidence and knowledgable (evidently), I figured this would be the best option!

Hey - it works and looks a lot better than having an extension lead on the floor!

So can you offer me any guidance or help in regards to connecting two double-wall sockets to one cable, daisy chaining them?

 

[jason jones]

as far as i can understand you are powering up your new twin socket with the flex off an extension lead and that flex is plugged into an existing socket not hard wired in, correct? if this is the case and you want to daisy chain from the NEW socket to power others then that shouldn't be a problem as the whole lot will be protected by your plug top fuse, unauthodox but nothing fundamentally wrong as far as i can tell. Not quite the yes or no you wanted, sorry

 

[bugsy]

you sir are totally off your head, put the wacky bacy away and think about this seriousley

 

[Brendan Richman]

Thanks Jason - personally I don't see why this couldn't be done since it's not like I'm running the whole house from it, just low-power appliances, but thanks for your input.

@Bugsy...thanks for your much-valued opinion...! =/ I'm intrigued to know what you would do in this situation if you wanted to do this very cheaply, with no experience or knowledge of mains electrics, and with no one you know who could help you...

 

[mayfair]

thought everyone was supposed to be playing nice and not insulting new members with simple questions

you sir are totally off your head, put the wacky bacy away and think about this seriousley

 

[mayfair]

Well said m8, just some members have a rather large chip on their shoulder !!!

Thanks Jason - personally I don't see why this couldn't be done since it's not like I'm running the whole house from it, just low-power appliances, but thanks for your input.

@Bugsy...thanks for your much-valued opinion...! =/ I'm intrigued to know what you would do in this situation if you wanted to do this very cheaply, with no experience or knowledge of mains electrics, and with no one you know who could help you...

 

[Brendan Richman]

Well said m8, just some members have a rather large chip on their shoulder !!!

Seems that way yeah! Thanks for understanding!

 

[bugsy]

Thanks Jason - personally I don't see why this couldn't be done since it's not like I'm running the whole house from it, just low-power appliances, but thanks for your input.

@Bugsy...thanks for your much-valued opinion...! =/ I'm intrigued to know what you would do in this situation if you wanted to do this very cheaply, with no experience or knowledge of mains electrics, and with no one you know who could help you...

Before carrying out the installation I would have asked the question on the forum , the answer would have probebly been spur off the socket in 2.5mm install fcu and two doulble sockets. Cheap is not always cheap in the long run, should by any chance ( admittedly remote ) this caused a problem your insurers would look and laugh,

No offence intended but this forum is open to everybody and we are supposed to be professionals giving sound advice sorry if I offended you but these are my personal veiws

 

[jason jones]

in essence he's screwing an extension lead to a wall and plugging it in in a different room. i cant see the problem.

 

[Brendan Richman]

Before carrying out the installation I would have asked the question on the forum , the answer would have probebly been spur off the socket in 2.5mm install fcu and two doulble sockets. Cheap is not always cheap in the long run, should by any chance ( admittedly remote ) this caused a problem your insurers would look and laugh,

No offence intended but this forum is open to everybody and we are supposed to be professionals giving sound advice sorry if I offended you but these are my personal veiws

First off, thanks for apologising. Just sounded a bit arrogant in your first when you didn't offer any valuable input.

Although I didn't even know this forum existed back when I did it (about a year ago now), I did actually think this would have been way to go about it, to spur off an existing wall socket to a new one, and I did look on the internet for some guidance but was told you can't spur off a wall socket that is already daisy-chained on a ring main. I know for a fact that I have seen this being done before (although who did it wasn't an electrician so didn't trust it toooo much!).

Anyway, I will bear this in mind for future reference, although like I did say earlier, I'm not too keen to tap into my ring mains directly as I don't know what really goes on behind there, if you get me!

 

[not clever]

you sir are totally off your head, put the wacky bacy away and think about this seriousley

Yellow pages has a whole host of electrician numbers, if you wanted to do it properly that is.

 

[Brendan Richman]

in essence he's screwing an extension lead to a wall and plugging it in in a different room. i cant see the problem.

Yeah that would have been a better way to look at it! Just replacing the extension part with a wall-socket to tidy it up a bit!

 

[mayfair]

you sir are totally off your head, put the wacky bacy away and think about this seriousley........... Professional and non offensive dont exactly spring to mind......Quicker we give say 7 day bans for this sort a crap the better

No offence intended but this forum is open to everybody and we are supposed to be professionals giving sound advice sorry if I offended you but these are my personal veiws