Electrics Query

ciscobloke01

Hi All
Just wondering if someone can help me.

When I bought my house I had a single socket fitted inside the garage that an electric fire on the other side of the wall (in the lounge) pulled into.

When I converted the garage to a room some years later I changed the socket to a fused switch and all was good in the world.

Now I want to add an Electric radiator to the inside of the garage and ideally use this electrical connection. So my thinking was would it be OK to change this back to a single socket so I can plug in the radiator but keep the electric fire wired in the backbox so to speak so I have power to both?

Thanks in advance.
MIchael

Risteard

ciscobloke01 wrote: »

Hi All
Just wondering if someone can help me.

When I bought my house I had a single socket fitted inside the garage that an electric fire on the other side of the wall (in the lounge) pulled into.

When I converted the garage to a room some years later I changed the socket to a fused switch and all was good in the world.

Now I want to add an Electric radiator to the inside of the garage and ideally use this electrical connection. So my thinking was would it be OK to change this back to a single socket so I can plug in the radiator but keep the electric fire wired in the backbox so to speak so I have power to both?

Thanks in advance.
MIchael

Get an Electrician to advise you on the way forward.

stator

With electrical heating appliances you'd have to work out the maximum load of both appliances at the same time and check if the wiring and fuses / MCB etc are all appropriate for that load.

ciscobloke01

Hmm i'll have to check the fire that's there. The new radiator is 1100w

tacpot12

Chances are you just need a socket adding to the radial or ring circuit that is feeding the current socket. It might be possible to add a spur, but this is why you need an electrician to check that your socket is really part of a radial or ring circuit, and has not already been mis-wired as a spur on a spur (the two appear the same to the layman).

This quite a straight forward job; it doesn't need notifying to Building Control, but does need a Minor Works Certificate to be issued, and the altered circuit to be properly tested, so you do need an electrician to make the change.

ciscobloke01

OK thanks for the replies.

I've another option. Let me see if I can explain this one.

On the opposite wall was an electric panel fire (one of those ones that use light bulbs for heat and not warm at all) this was hard wired with the black flex wire running in the wall joining some white flex then running up inside wall to a 13amp Switched Fused spur. (Not sure how the black wire from fire and white flex were joined but its concealed in wall.

I have now remove the fire from the wall and cut the cable. I was thinking of fitting the new electric radiator to this wall by either hard wiring and joining the cable in the wall or adding a join and running it to a single wall socket extending using same flex type cable.

Are either the above possible/acceptable? For the join I'd probably use heat shrink crimps and wrap in heat shrink tube sleeve or maybe Spliceline inline connectors then wrap sleeve.

Regards

tonyh66

ciscobloke01 wrote: »

OK thanks for the replies.

I've another option. Let me see if I can explain this one.

On the opposite wall was an electric panel fire (one of those ones that use light bulbs for heat and not warm at all) this was hard wired with the black flex wire running in the wall joining some white flex then running up inside wall to a 13amp Switched Fused spur. (Not sure how the black wire from fire and white flex were joined but its concealed in wall.

I have now remove the fire from the wall and cut the cable. I was thinking of fitting the new electric radiator to this wall by either hard wiring and joining the cable in the wall or adding a join and running it to a single wall socket extending using same flex type cable.

Are either the above possible/acceptable? For the join I'd probably use heat shrink crimps and wrap in heat shrink tube sleeve or maybe Spliceline inline connectors then wrap sleeve.

Regards

are you deliberately trying to wind up the electricians on here? heatshrink and crimps are not acceptable, get an electrician in to do it properly and safely