Multiple Ring Spurs.

Zoomup over 4 years ago

When was it common to run a ring final in a loft of say a bungalow, and have multiple spurs running down to sockets in rooms below? Why did this come about? Was it a wartime materials' saving provision? I am working in an old building wired in the early to mid 60s and no sockets seem to be on a ring, just spurs, but there are rings at the fuse box. The collection of a multitude of junction boxes is something to behold. It is junction box city, now all hidden under layers of glass fibre insulation. A real pig.

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0 AJJewsbury over 4 years ago

When was it common to run a ring final in a loft of say a bungalow, and have multiple spurs running down to sockets in rooms below? Why did this come about?

I have heard of this before. One theory was that it was an alteration/rewire of an original radial system that either only had one cable dropping down to the socket or a conduit that was too small to take both cables (and re-cutting a ceiling to near floor chase for every drop wasn't desirable).

- Andy.
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0 AJJewsbury over 4 years ago

When was it common to run a ring final in a loft of say a bungalow, and have multiple spurs running down to sockets in rooms below? Why did this come about?

I have heard of this before. One theory was that it was an alteration/rewire of an original radial system that either only had one cable dropping down to the socket or a conduit that was too small to take both cables (and re-cutting a ceiling to near floor chase for every drop wasn't desirable).

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