so in this video today okay we're we're adding sockets in an installation now
the the current socket you can see here okay is currently behind a bed and the customer wants a
double socket either side of the bed behind the dressing tables okay or the side tables now as you
can see here it's actually wired in a ring okay so we've got two lines two neutrals and two CPCs it
could be a radial but it's actually a ring final circuit what we have to look at okay is if we
look at in the On-Site Guide we could spur off of this ring final circuit now when we look at that
okay we're actually on a ring final circuit we're actually only allowed one spur per existing outlet
so the problem here i have is actually have two outlets to put in off of an existing one
so what i would potentially need to do okay is if we're going to have more than one spur off of an
existing outlet on a ring final circuit we would have to put in maybe a fused connection unit okay
and then once we put in a fused connection unit we can actually have as many sockets as we like from
that ring final circuit on the spur because it's protected now by the 13 amp fuse within the fuse
connection unit however what i'm going to do today is slightly different because this socket doesn't
need to be accessed and i don't really want to put a fuse connection unit behind the bed where
let's say the fuse does blow they have to pull the bed out okay what i'm going to do is i'm actually
going to look at extending the ring final circuit so so what i've done is always started prepping
it um it's a dot and dab wall um so i've cut the hole over there for the first socket outlet
and what i've managed to do the dab was just by this socket so i managed to drill through there
okay with sort of a 16 mil bit and then we're going to feed the rods through okay hopefully
we can get through to that socket without having to chop any of this wall out will look nicer for
the customer saves on paying for it to be made good and then we're going to pull the cables in
so all i'm going to do first okay is just try and get my rods in i'm going to try and angle them up
so that when they slightly drop down hopefully it'll be in line with the socket outlet
and then if you can see that over there if i just bring this to this socket outlet we've managed to
fish it through okay so what i'm going to do now is i'm actually going to fix a back box in there
pour the cables in get everything grommeted up and then we'll look at the other side
hopefully we can be lucky enough to have no dab in between the two the socket
over there and the existing one we might be able to do the same thing
so i've got the cables taped in the other end okay i just wanted to show you as we pull them through
just a bit let's just get rid of this rod
as we pull them through like so you'll notice that actually what i've done when taping them
okay if i bring it in close what i've done when taping them rather than take them all
onto the rod themself or both cables because i'll explain why we use while we're running two
cables because we're extending the ring i've taped one here and i've taped the other cable
together with the next cable so that actually when they're trying to come through the hole in the
the back box over there you're not trying to get a bigger diameter because it probably wouldn't have
fitted so we've just tied this to there and that's it there so as you can see now we've got this
socket in to the left we managed to fish through without there being um too much dot and dab so
that went quite well it means we didn't have to do any chasing really so the customer's happy one
on the other side as well now we talked about we could put a switch here or a fuse connection unit
okay but we decided not to do that because it will be behind the bed if the fuse ever blows etc it's
just it's harder for the the customer to then have to pull the bed out it's quite a big heavy bed
to replace it so what we've decided to do instead because this socket isn't needed again
is we're going to extend the ring okay now we're going to look at the original legs
which are here so we have two legs coming up okay and what we've done is we've actually extended
both legs so what we've done is we've taken one cable to the socket to the right hand side
okay and then these will connect to that so at the minute the ring
is coming up here round to that socket we've then run a socket a cable from the right hand socket
all the way through to this socket on the left hand side so at the minute the ring comes up
it connects between these and these goes off to the right hand side comes all the way back to the
left-hand side then we run another cable from this left-hand side all the way back here to here and
then this will connect onto the other leg of the ring remember if we have we can only have one spur
okay one unfused spur as per the onside guide per outlet on the ring or per accessory okay
however if we want more than one we can either put in a fuse connection unit which means we can
have as many after that fuse connection unit as we possibly want to because it has a 13
amp plug top fuse in it but what we've decided to do today is actually keep the ring in place
and not have to put in a fuse connection unit so it comes up here round to the right hand
side all the way to the left hand side back and then through this leg to continue on to the rig
okay and then we'll do our relevant testing that's needed and produce the relevant certification