How many spurs can you get off one socket on a ring?????

[HappyHippyDad]

A friend asked me to have a quick look at the electrics as she wasn't sure if the plasterer was doing it quite right!

On investigation I found the socket (on a ring) was already supplying one spur which fed 2 sockets (JB underfloorboards). The plasterer had already added another spur and then another spur off that spur, and he had another cable in the initial socket ready to feed another spur.



So altogether the socket was to have 3 seperate spurs taken from it, feeding 5 extra sockets.

Tried to explain it to the plasterer, but he said he'd rang his electrician mate and they had said it was ok. Nice chap though and was quite happy to let me take over. :smile5:

 

[Farmelectrics]

dont forget the grommits as well

 

[driverman]

OHHHHH come on lads, it's obvious.........plasterer supports SPURS!

 

[i=p/u]

What about just put it on a 16A breaker , and say you've left it safe, pay me and run

 

[OhmElectrical]

Lol idiots

 

[Guest77]

I have seen that before, basically it is 2 rings and a radial, one leg of each ring to be joined out in the back of the box with wagos and the other 3 in the front into the socket, I am not saying it is good, but whats the issue if it passes all of the tests?? :biggrin:

 

[Geordie Spark]

WT absolute holy F is going on? What kind of idiot do you have to be to get a plasterer to carry out electrical work.
Tell him from me that both him and his "electrician" mate are complete and utter bloody fools. If they have a problem with that they can come and see me.

That's my boy .... gi'e the pair of them the Geordie Kiss!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

A friend asked me to have a quick look at the electrics as she wasn't sure if the plasterer was doing it quite right!

On investigation I found the socket (on a ring) was already supplying one spur which fed 2 sockets (JB underfloorboards). The plasterer had already added another spur and then another spur off that spur, and he had another cable in the initial socket ready to feed another spur.

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So altogether the socket was to have 3 seperate spurs taken from it, feeding 5 extra sockets.

Tried to explain it to the plasterer, but he said he'd rang his electrician mate and they had said it was ok. Nice chap though and was quite happy to let me take over. :smile5:

How many spurs can you get on a cowboy sparks boots???

 

[7029 dave]

5 ends ?, oh dear, upstairs ring interconnected with downstairs. lol

 

[driverman]

The way I'm reading this is...I't's a ring circuit + 3 x spurs. Original ring + 1 x spur (red and black cables). Then Mr plasterer the expert comes along and installs 2 more spurs ( brown and blue cables). I wonder what paper work the plaster will filling in as well as the chases!

 

[123]

Gotta give the plasterer some credit, he did use PVC/PVC cable. The last effort I saw wired by a plasterer was in 0.75mm flex and the socket was fed from the light!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Gotta give the plasterer some credit, he did use PVC/PVC cable. The last effort I saw wired by a plasterer was in 0.75mm flex and the socket was fed from the light!

Bollox, looks to me like he's skimmed with the socket in place.
Total amateur on all fronts.

 

[123]

Bollox, looks to me like he's skimmed with the socket in place.
Total amateur on all fronts.

I should have ended my post with a smiley, it was meant in total humour. It's a total mess.

Shame on the plasterer, shame on the client for getting him to do anything electrical related in the first place.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I should have ended my post with a smiley, it was meant in total humour.

I know mate!

 

[uksparks]

I can't see how you can get 5 x 2.5mm (12.5mm) in single solid core conductors into a sockets connection terminal... It's not as if you can even cut a stand off here and there!! ...lol!!

Agreed, its dman near impossible, some faceplates I have fitted for people have huge terminal holes on so it may have been possible, but regardless it would have been a complete bodge.

Its nice to see that he has taken care not to squash the cables in the back when he pushes the faceplate back on because he has used a 47mm deep back box.

 

[uksparks]

Bollox, looks to me like he's skimmed with the socket in place.
Total amateur on all fronts.

Sometimes you have to skim them in a to a degree. There was a house i went to, the lady said can i convert the single into a double and it was hard against an aerial socket, I should have realised it was one of those stupid twin backbox things for two singles.

When i took it out, there was just a massive hole behind it, literally nothing at all as the backbox was fixed sideways into the brick, so there was he cavity...

I didn't have much choice but to use lumps of rock from the garden, building foam and loads of 20 min plaster. Looked very nice when I had finished though.