Chaps
Am rearranging the utility room for SWMBO. Washer and drier going stacked in the opposite corner of the room to where the washer is now. Have done waste and water supply then I look at the socket that is there, planning to fit another directly behind where the appliances will go and it only has one cable connected inside. There is another disconnected dead cable in there, and that's when I remember something strange happened with the rewire when we did our extension/rebuild, a cable went astray and the sparky couldn't get the ring main connected properly in the utility. This one socket is a spur off the ring main, the second cable was going to another socket - which was where the missing cable for the other side of the ring went missing, second socket was removed and the hole plastered over.
So if I plug a washer and drier into this socket will it overload the cable?
The wall it is on is next to the boiler room, which has sockets in on the kitchen ring main, I could run a new socket off that but I think it supplies all the ovens etc so adding a washer and drier to that might be even worse. There is no way to get new cables to this side from the utility ring main without getting fairly destructive, we have solid floor and underfloor heating, so options are limited.
Will I be OK for am I doomed to cutting huge holes in the ceiling to fish cables through from the other side of the room???
Any thoughts?
Ta
Jim
Am rearranging the utility room for SWMBO. Washer and drier going stacked in the opposite corner of the room to where the washer is now. Have done waste and water supply then I look at the socket that is there, planning to fit another directly behind where the appliances will go and it only has one cable connected inside. There is another disconnected dead cable in there, and that's when I remember something strange happened with the rewire when we did our extension/rebuild, a cable went astray and the sparky couldn't get the ring main connected properly in the utility. This one socket is a spur off the ring main, the second cable was going to another socket - which was where the missing cable for the other side of the ring went missing, second socket was removed and the hole plastered over.
So if I plug a washer and drier into this socket will it overload the cable?
The wall it is on is next to the boiler room, which has sockets in on the kitchen ring main, I could run a new socket off that but I think it supplies all the ovens etc so adding a washer and drier to that might be even worse. There is no way to get new cables to this side from the utility ring main without getting fairly destructive, we have solid floor and underfloor heating, so options are limited.
Will I be OK for am I doomed to cutting huge holes in the ceiling to fish cables through from the other side of the room???
Any thoughts?
Ta
Jim