lighting spur

[watson789]

Hi all

Recently purcahsed a property and have fould that the lighting main is just a spur.

Basically what i need to know is will this be a problem in terms of the spur overloading/ tripping (or any other problems!) if i start to add 'fancy light fittings' say 300w per room?

additional info...

* There are 2 spurs 1 for upstairs lighting and 1 for the downstairs lighting
* Each fitting at the minute has a standard 60w bulb hanging from it
* Downstairs has 4 light fittings upstairs has 5 fittings

 

[Eggster71]

How do you mean a spur? Do the lighting circuits have fused units from the sockets? They really should have their own circuits from the fuse box!

 

[watson789]

sorry what i ment was there is 1 cable coming from the fuse box which meets a junction box underneath the floorboards. from this there is a cable going to each light.

 

[monkeyelectric]

sorry what i ment was there is 1 cable coming from the fuse box which meets a junction box underneath the floorboards. from this there is a cable going to each light.

Yeah thats fine, if you're going to be changing fittings though i would check your loadings first , just incase the fuse blows or mcb trips