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Hi peeps, I have been landed a job to move a double socket up by 30cm as the existing surface mounted socket is in the way of the new skirting board.

What are my options?

- Use 30amp terminal block? I will find quite hard to bury the block and the skirting board will be covering it therefore no access to it. I probably need to put RCD protection no doubt.

- Trace back the wire to the next socket and use a new longer wire?

Thank you
Monjoor
 
grab hold of the 2 wires doughnut and pull up the 300 m2 of cable required, it is very rare indeed to not be able to find a foot of cable, if by some miracle it isn't possible then install a maintenance free joint and extend if rewiring is difficult, I bet you will find cable though :lol:
 
if you want to do it without any joints and its on a ring, and there isn't enough slack to pull up 30cm then your going to be replacing both the legs, like mdj says mf jb under floorboard and just extend, at least that way you can still get to the jb if ever needed unless laminate is going down, have you seen the job if solid floors may find the legs maybe coming down the wall so nice and simple job, if the job is in oldham and your stuck i can always pop over and have a look for you, i'm in oldham everyday nearly anyway
 
'Maintenance free' JBs often don't seem to be as 'maintenance free' as the manufacturers would have you believe; you might think you're saving half an hour and a couple of quid by extending a cable, but it'll be a lot more difficult and expensive if and when the JB fails and you end up going back and replacing the cable anyway, by which time the flooring is down.

If you can't pull enough up I would go for finding the next sockets and replacing the cable.
 
When training in mechanical engineering I called a length a centimetre, spent the next 3 days having to file metal within in 0.02mm by hand when everyone else was on the mills & lathes... Never used centimetre again, now I hate the word!
 
what are centimetres? is this some american fad to count small change?
 
My CDT (I think they call it 'resistant materials' or something nowadays) teacher at school didn't recognise centimetres either - it was millimetres, metres, or nothing.
One of the first things we did at college was units of measurement; they didn't seem to mind centimetres but one of the tutor's catchphrases was "it's not 0.5 it's 500 milli..."
 
What is, or was, a CDT teacher? They were all sir's and miss's that I remember.

And you just move the socket up a foot.
 
What is, or was, a CDT teacher? They were all sir's and miss's that I remember.
A teacher who teaches children CDT.
CDT (Craft, Design and Technology) encompassed disciplines such as woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing.
All the CDT teachers at my school were male (or 'sirs') while all the cookery and textiles teachers were female (or misses), which wasn't considered 'backward' in those days.
 

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