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Socket in Attic

  • 02-03-2022 10:17pm
    #1
    brokenangel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I am just wondering about installing a socket into the attic, I live in bungalow and I know the cables running so could I get a junction box, a 3 way and then cut a cable going to existing socket. Then wire it up? or am I taking a too simplified view?

    Of course cutting all power to house first



Comments

  • #2
    mickward
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭mickward


    Dont shoot the messenger, i am not a spark, but I would use the socket as the junction and not add in more cable or another joint if i could avoid it all.



  • #3
    brokenangel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118725822#Comment_118725822

    No shooting will take place :-)

    Bungalow so all the walls got chased to run cable down, trying to run another cables would be messy so that is why I was thinking about the above. Sparks is 100 quid so I might have to bite the bullet



  • #4
    Coddle4dinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭Coddle4dinner


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118726585#Comment_118726585

    You could find the last socket in a socket circuit, it'll just have one cable going down to it.

    Disconnect the socket, pull that cable up (with a pull wire securely attached) to the attic and relocate it to your new socket, then pull a new 2.5 T&E cable down to the original socket to link them .

    You wont need a pull wire if the is plastic wavin in the wall.



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