Ring Circuit - Sockets Question

[Rosko1987]

Afternoon everyone! thatnk god its Friday!!

Im looking for some help / advice

A friend of mine has moved into a new house. The house is old with brick walls. nightmare.
He wants some new sockets in with minimal damage to the walls and without lifting to many floorboards.

So I was wondering, instead of braking into a ring, can I just spur off one of the sockets near by. He wants a double socket put in for a tv and dvd player.

Its the same situation upstairs in the house although this time id be spurring off for a desktop compuer.

Do you think this can work? or will it overload and trip the breaker?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated. thanks

 

[bugsy]

Providing the existing ring is ok ( I assume you will test it before making any alterations) there's no reason why you cant take a spur from the ground floor and first floor ring

 

[Rosko1987]

Cheers Bugsy, My mate said the house has been recently re-wired befoe they bought it. Theres a brand new Board in as well

 

[bugsy]

No worries, just bear in mind don't use J.B's under the floor boards, if their screw terminal they need to be accessable for testing . wago do some decent connection boxes rated at 32a

 

[oldtimer]

Also mind that when you break into the ring ie spur of a socket with 2 Ls and 2 Ns make sure it is on the ring and not the first of 2 sockets spurred off the actual ring. got caught with that years ago

 

[acat]

Also remember only one spur per existing socket, if you do anymore you need to put a fuse in first then you can have as many as you want.


Chris

 

[oldtimer]

acat is right but mind that in older installations you were allowed 2 spurs from a socket on the ring main