Moving plug sockets

**Silkadin** · 13-12-19, 05:41 PM

Need to reposition some sockets in my cabin. How easy is that?

Does all the power to the house need cutting off or just fo the cabin. Cabin has it's own junction box connected to the one in the house.

**M_C** · 13-12-19, 05:48 PM

You will just need the power off to the socket, after that it's just a cae of unscrewing the socket & putting it where you want

**gardro** · 13-12-19, 06:08 PM

If you have to ask it might be best to ask an electrician.

What fuse/breaker/rcd/rcbo protects the wire going to that socket?

Is it on a radial or ring ?

**AND** · 13-12-19, 06:45 PM

Looks like a radial to me...I would put a 13A fused spur on the cable as it comes to the first socket, then wire any sockets from there...the fuse will make sure you don't overload

**MrC** · 13-12-19, 07:49 PM

Good luck silk, hope you have home insurance

. Of all that's been said in this thread so far I understood 13A and that's it lol.

**Silkadin** · 13-12-19, 08:02 PM

So that's the box in the cabin that the houses box runs to. If it's too much for an armature to handle I suppose I could just move the plugs as I have to without disconnecting the cables to them, but I'd end up with plugs in random places on the walls. I'd like to think I can do it with a little guidance.

**Silkadin** · 13-12-19, 08:04 PM

A close up...

**gardro** · 13-12-19, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Silkadin

A close up...

Would assume the lights run off the 6a minature circuit breaker and the plugs off the 16a.

Theres no residual current protection on anything unless you have it upstream.

Assumptions suck ass with electrics though as plenty of clowns with no training may have touched or installed it.

Too move that socket would involve disturbing the wiring and that requires a sparky.

**AND** · 13-12-19, 08:41 PM

Easy job Silk...switch off at big red one, open sockets, move to where you want them and re cable as they were...personally I would put some trunking or conduit in between to protect cables (20mm conduit socket adapter already on the 1st socket)

If you're not ok with doing that, as Gardro says above

**gardro** · 13-12-19, 08:46 PM

Its how confident you are and if you have a meter.

I had just this in a garage. The previous cnut had switched the neutrals and not the lives.

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