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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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    Only last week I came across a 4 bed property that had the left and right sides of the house split into RFC as apposed to downstairs and upstairs convention! ?


    Daughter's 4 bed house was (and still is in part) like that. Just to muddle things a bit more, spurs had been put straight through walls into the kitchen from both rings so that the sockets in one room were supplied by three circuits.


    The left/right (front/back) split is explained by the fact that the property was originally a pair of two semi-detached two-bed cottages.


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    Only last week I came across a 4 bed property that had the left and right sides of the house split into RFC as apposed to downstairs and upstairs convention! ?


    Daughter's 4 bed house was (and still is in part) like that. Just to muddle things a bit more, spurs had been put straight through walls into the kitchen from both rings so that the sockets in one room were supplied by three circuits.


    The left/right (front/back) split is explained by the fact that the property was originally a pair of two semi-detached two-bed cottages.


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