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Multiple Ring Spurs.

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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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    Yes Timesreved I did my own house Front then Back  (both floors) and Kitchen rings late 70s yet lighting two sep floors back then.


    Andy - Snicket , yes round here is a small passageway tween two hedges.


    It`s all a bit Alice in Wonderland though, when we use a word or term it means what we want it to mean and not always what someone else may mean, sometimes th`opposite. Strange world innit?


    Anyway - Rings, yes Dave good point (Although the one spur per point maxim is not observed)  I always prefers twins to singles anyway (unless you are trying to avoid the use of two "heavy" loads in one twin - say washer/dryer etc perhaps. Twin boxes make it easier to wire and not much price diff, sometimes twins are actually cheaper than singles too
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    Yes Timesreved I did my own house Front then Back  (both floors) and Kitchen rings late 70s yet lighting two sep floors back then.


    Andy - Snicket , yes round here is a small passageway tween two hedges.


    It`s all a bit Alice in Wonderland though, when we use a word or term it means what we want it to mean and not always what someone else may mean, sometimes th`opposite. Strange world innit?


    Anyway - Rings, yes Dave good point (Although the one spur per point maxim is not observed)  I always prefers twins to singles anyway (unless you are trying to avoid the use of two "heavy" loads in one twin - say washer/dryer etc perhaps. Twin boxes make it easier to wire and not much price diff, sometimes twins are actually cheaper than singles too
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