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I am a competent DIYer and have fiddled with elecritics, but not massively confident. However, extending a ring, in of itself, looks fairly easy.
I am adjusting a wall between two of my bedrooms. The wall is actually a built in wardrobe, which I am removing, with a view to giving some of the space to our box room (40cm), and keeping approximately 20cm for the master bedroom. This means removing the stud wall that actually separates the two rooms (which forms the back of the built in wardrobe), and moving it 40cm into the master bedroom. This wall has no electrics running through it currently.
Outside of these two rooms is the landing, where there is a single plug wall socket, which is positioned on the wall that borders both bedrooms.
As it happens the position of the new stud wall is EXACTLY where the existing single wall socket is in the hallway, so the socket will have to move, as the vertical wooden strut of the stud wall needs to go where it currently is. I don't want to lose the hallway socket, so I will be re-positioning it and changing it into a double socket.
I have attached am image of the set up I plan to pursue. My main question is about extending my ring off of the existing hallway socket, so it links to the 3 new double sockets, coming back t the existing socket to complete the ring again.
How do I best go about this, and what would I need? Looking at this page:
Extending a Ring Main | Add More Sockets - http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/Extendingringmain.htm
It looks fairly straightforward, but I would appreciate advice, as specific as is possible, given this is a forum and we are not face to face.
Kind regards
Padraig
I am a competent DIYer and have fiddled with elecritics, but not massively confident. However, extending a ring, in of itself, looks fairly easy.
I am adjusting a wall between two of my bedrooms. The wall is actually a built in wardrobe, which I am removing, with a view to giving some of the space to our box room (40cm), and keeping approximately 20cm for the master bedroom. This means removing the stud wall that actually separates the two rooms (which forms the back of the built in wardrobe), and moving it 40cm into the master bedroom. This wall has no electrics running through it currently.
Outside of these two rooms is the landing, where there is a single plug wall socket, which is positioned on the wall that borders both bedrooms.
As it happens the position of the new stud wall is EXACTLY where the existing single wall socket is in the hallway, so the socket will have to move, as the vertical wooden strut of the stud wall needs to go where it currently is. I don't want to lose the hallway socket, so I will be re-positioning it and changing it into a double socket.
I have attached am image of the set up I plan to pursue. My main question is about extending my ring off of the existing hallway socket, so it links to the 3 new double sockets, coming back t the existing socket to complete the ring again.
How do I best go about this, and what would I need? Looking at this page:
Extending a Ring Main | Add More Sockets - http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/Extendingringmain.htm
It looks fairly straightforward, but I would appreciate advice, as specific as is possible, given this is a forum and we are not face to face.
Kind regards
Padraig
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