Electrical - is this safe?

B'stard

I moved into a new house and I notice where the previous owner had their fridge they did not have a "proper" electrical socket, they wired the fridge into the socket in the wall - is this safe to do so again?

The socket on the left is for the fridge, and I do not know what else...
The socket on the right is for the under cupboard lights at floor level. The lights can be switch off and on when required.



Inside of the sockets.

ormus

yes its ok, but you could change it for a normal socket too. if required.

keith969

What a bodge. If you're going to wire the fridge into a switched spur, at least use a switch with a flex outlet rather than have the thing hanging off the wall...

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MKK1070.html

B'stard

ormus wrote: »

yes its ok, but you could change it for a normal socket too. if required.

Thanks for the reply, I don't know what all the other wires are for, but I'll wire the fridge into the left socket. The right one needs to be switched on/off for the floor lights.

keith969 wrote: »

What a bodge. If you're going to wire the fridge into a switched spur, at least use a switch with a flex outlet rather than have the thing hanging off the wall...

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MKK1070.html

I didn't wire this up, the sockets do have a flex outlet at the bottom.

27col

What you have photographed are not sockets as you call them. They are fused spur outlets, and if they are to feed flexible cables, then they should have flex outlets on the front. To enable the flexible lead to come out from the flush mounting. I would suggest changing both of them to standard switched sockets, particularly in the case of the fridge as it then becomes easy to remove the appliance.

deano72_2

looks like the type of spur which have knockouts/cable entries at the bottom of the spur,ifso use them & screw them flush back to the wall.no problem.but if your the type that want tp pull out appliances for cleaning ect then maybe change them for socket outlets

B'stard

deano72 wrote: »

looks like the type of spur which have knockouts/cable entries at the bottom of the spur,ifso use them & screw them flush back to the wall.no problem.but if your the type that want tp pull out appliances for cleaning ect then maybe change them for socket outlets

Another picture of the socket (spur;))

The left socket has a lot of wires going into it, I don't know what they are for, I take it if I changed this one for a normal socket and switch it off all the other things which these wires power will be switch off also?

Underside of socket




Edit
The fridge has arrived and I've wired it up and its working ok

jamesb1239

B'stard wrote: »

Another picture of the socket (spur;))

The left socket has a lot of wires going into it, I don't know what they are for, I take it if I changed this one for a normal socket and switch it off all the other things which these wires power will be switch off also?

Underside of socket




Edit
The fridge has arrived and I've wired it up and its working ok

All the other wires will be for your ring main, every socket in your house is connected in a ring, usually one for upstairs and one for down, so each socket will have 2 sets of wires. One for power in from the last socket and one for power out to the next one (and in your case some extra for the appliance that is wired in) thats why you have so many wires