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Good Point! Fortunately there is a nice new consumer unit (vintage 2014) with a goodly supply of spare trips... It probably will end up as a rewire once I decide where all of the halogen down-lighters will be installed (and once I have replaced the supplied halogen bulbs with LEDs!!!!!!).

Thanks Doc H...  My intention was to maintain the ECO7 spurs as just that (a spur) to the socket that they would supply rather than attempt to make a ring or join them into the existing single main. Thanks for this observation Doc. H... I was intending to use the ECO7 spurs as just that - a...

Interesting; does one socket mean just that; a single socket,  or is a double socket a single when it is a 2 gang pair? I also note that old cable has been re-used ( grey sheathed painted over and obviously from somewhere else in or out of the house and then used on the spur) in the trunking...

My 1960s property (recently acquired) has one main ring with a deficit of sockets for the modern world or electronic equipment. I have hung extension leads out of every socket but have noticed trunking which hides the fact that some of the sockets are spurs off of the ring without any additional...

Thanks to you who responded - I was not aware that 1960s regs allowed the immersion to be on the main ring... My timer seems to be doing its job well (about a fiver from WILCO) ; I have been using it in low-power applications for years and it seems to be OK on the required 12 amps for 1.5 hours...

Hi, I am new to  this so please bear with me if I sound overtly ignorant.... After buying a very "original" 1960s "semi" I found that even with the horrible storage rads disconnected the electricity consumption was suspiciously high... I was astounded to find that the water heater was on the...