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GrantF

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Hi all,

I'm planning to remove a stud wall seperating my dining room and kitchen.

On the dining room side of the stud wall, there is a double socket which I want to move about 2 feet approximately along, and onto the back wall. The wires will be coming down from the ceiling as they all do on my house (new build in 2004). The house is of timber kit, with stud walls and insulation between the walls and floors\ceilings.
I'm expecting that one feed of the socket will be coming from the socket situated near the stud wall on the kitchen side.

My assumption is that there is unlikely to be adequate slack in the cable coming from down from roof so was wondering what the best way would be to extend the 2.5 T+E cable so I can run get the cable from the roof down to the new socket location to maintain the ring continuity?

Are Wago 221's for each T+E conductor\CPC, and then all the Wago's an cable stored in a 32A Wago box in the ceiling void the correct way to acheive this?

Cheers
Grant
 
You’ll have 2 through joints, 4 cables to extend the ring. Will be a squeeze in a regular wago box.

Fit two, side by side…. Or make this one socket a spur off the ring. You should get 3 cables into a wago box.


Good news is the circuit should already have RCD protection….
 

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