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Hi all,

I have recently bought a house. The garage is at the end of the garden and has a double socket. The socket is on the ring and not a spur. It has 2 live, 2 neutral and 2 earths. It was basically falling off the wall so want to replace it.

The garage has no lighting so I want to fit a light and also another double socket at the other side of the garage.

Can anyone advise the best way to do this?

My thoughts to do this are below but I would like some advice/confirmation if this is the right thing to do as I know I cannot run a spur and a FCU from the original socket.

Run 13A FCU from the double socket, then run a new double socket from the 13A FCU. Then from the new double socket, run a 3A switched FCU for the light?

I have checked for continuity and the readings are all satisfactory.

Cheers,
J
 
I have recently bought a house. The garage is at the end of the garden and has a double socket. The socket is on the ring and not a spur. It has 2 live, 2 neutral and 2 earths. It was basically falling off the wall so want to replace it.
How far is the end of the garden / garage from the house?
How have you identified that you have a ring and not 2 cables in parallel from a spur?
I have checked for continuity and the readings are all satisfactory.
What Zs reading do you get at the socket in the garage?
 

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