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While moving a boiler for a client we were presented with this issue. The single socket was feeding a fridge located under a stairway. The socket was already spurred off of the ring located upstairs. The black cable was the also wired into the socket from behind and then fed out to a shed via an armoured cable. What’s the problem with that?
There are a few problems with this hookup. The first being that the socket is aready a spur and cannot feed another socket down the line when protected by a 30 amp fuse. As the cable for the shed was wired directly into the spur from behind then the outside circuit was also being fed from a 30amp fuse . The consumer unit was an old wylex box with wire fuses and thereofre did not offer the protection that an RCD would offer. The shed, although waterproof was showing signs of corrosion and the armoured cable could not be inspected. As the shed contained a fridge/freezer and another seperate freezer we added a fused plug to the connector so that it could be plugged back in properly. As we had also upgraded the consumer unit there is now RCD protection to all sockets.
As an extra note we also found faults on another cable which had been run to a greenhouse. That cable showed signs of damage underground and the feed was permanently disconnected.
Ask a professional before playing with your electrics or gas! Don’t guess about something that could leave you homeless, uninsured or worse – DEAD!
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