Hi. I wonder if someone is able to advise me or point me in the right direction. I had been wanting an additional double power point installing in our master bedroom. I was ready to have this done by a qualified electrician but on returning home from work at the weekend I found out that my father in law had gone ahead and done the work as he said he knows what he's doing?? He didn't ask me before doing it! The additional double power point installed in our master bedroom is a 13a switched socket. I just want to query if it has been done correctly based off my description. Just so you're aware, I'm a novice when it comes to electrics.
Before any alterations took place we had a cu (installed in 2008) with rcd. Nothing had been touched on the cu before this weekend and I have all the necessary certificates from when the cu was installed.
We only have 1 double power point in each bedroom which is quite limiting so I wanted an additional double point to be installed. My father in law decided as he couldn't run a spur off my existing power socket in the bedroom that he would install a junction box in our airing cupboard with a feed from an existing 2.5mm t+e. This existing 2.5mm cable was running directly from the cu in to the upstairs airing cupboard and connected to a fused switch, this then had a 1.5mm cable leading to the central heating control and from there in to a combi boiler. This was all done professionally in 2008, that's the cu and new boiler. The father in law has fitted the junction box below the existing fused switch. So going in to the junction box we have the original 2.5mm t+e cable, a new section of 2.5mm t+e cable to the fused switch and a new 2.5mm cable which is supplying the power to the new 13a power point. In addition to this he has gone and put a new 32a mcb in to the consumer unit, which previously had a 16a mcb.
I just need to know from a safety point of view if this sounds right? Would I be better to put the original 16a mcb back in the cu? Should the new stretch of cable (just under 3m in length) have trunking? The cable isn't exposed and is behind a wooden boxed in section leading from our second bedroom. Does the cable need air around it to cool down?
Many thanks in advance for any advice and help.
Before any alterations took place we had a cu (installed in 2008) with rcd. Nothing had been touched on the cu before this weekend and I have all the necessary certificates from when the cu was installed.
We only have 1 double power point in each bedroom which is quite limiting so I wanted an additional double point to be installed. My father in law decided as he couldn't run a spur off my existing power socket in the bedroom that he would install a junction box in our airing cupboard with a feed from an existing 2.5mm t+e. This existing 2.5mm cable was running directly from the cu in to the upstairs airing cupboard and connected to a fused switch, this then had a 1.5mm cable leading to the central heating control and from there in to a combi boiler. This was all done professionally in 2008, that's the cu and new boiler. The father in law has fitted the junction box below the existing fused switch. So going in to the junction box we have the original 2.5mm t+e cable, a new section of 2.5mm t+e cable to the fused switch and a new 2.5mm cable which is supplying the power to the new 13a power point. In addition to this he has gone and put a new 32a mcb in to the consumer unit, which previously had a 16a mcb.
I just need to know from a safety point of view if this sounds right? Would I be better to put the original 16a mcb back in the cu? Should the new stretch of cable (just under 3m in length) have trunking? The cable isn't exposed and is behind a wooden boxed in section leading from our second bedroom. Does the cable need air around it to cool down?
Many thanks in advance for any advice and help.
Just get him to reinsate the 16a mcb. As has been said, no need for the JB, he could have spurred from the FCU. That's DIY
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