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

[prosist]

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 house is directly connected to the double socket and the same SWA goes through the fused switch to the light bulb (this is what I think sorry if I am not wording this with the proper terms).

Another thing I found is that I have all the ground floor sockets (kitchen, living room, bathroom, hallway) plus boiler plus garage all in a single 32 circuit.

My question is: Is this installation in accordance with the UK regs?

Thank you

 

[default]

Ok… so does the garage spur from behind the tv pass through a switch fuse? This would limit the load to the 13A fuse, and a “spur from a spur” wouldn’t apply.

I hope they glanded the house end of the SWA properly.

For a new new build, I would have thought a separate rfc for just kitchen sockets and possibly dedicated radial circuits for high power appliances such as washing machine.

Also a full RCBO board would be preferable, not dual RCD… (although still ok with regs) and should have an SPD fitted unless you specifically said not to.

The new rules on SPDs only came into effect this year. If the plans for the development where passed before this and the work was started the new regs do not apply.

 

[prosist]

Sorry for being such a newbie. I went to look in where it goes out of the ring and there is a fuse there. So it is a fused spur as soon as it leaves the socket and then there is a second 3A fuse for the light.
Thank you all

 

[littlespark]

Sorry for being such a newbie. I went to look in where it goes out of the ring and there is a fuse there. So it is a fused spur as soon as it leaves the socket and then there is a second 3A fuse for the light.
Thank you all

So as I said, it’s a fused spur, so it’s protected by the 13A

Score 1 to the LS

 

[Spoon]

I went through all this because I had a plan of creating a spur there (before realising it was a spur itself) to install a floodlight to the outside of the garage.
What could I do if I wanted to add a 50W light from this circuit? (please let me know if I should make a new post in DIY forum instead)

Hi mate. Just add it to the 3A circuit in your garage.