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Hello, Our house has a side extension over the integral garage. There is a 'legacy' cavity wall between the original house and the garage and the extension rooms over the top of this garage. This cavity wall has never been filled (i.e. the whole original air gap is present) except where cavity wall ...

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Thanks for the replies all. I replaced the plug socket a couple of weekends back, and it seems to be working fine. I bought a socket tester and used on the socket I added, and the two on either side (i.e. the ones at risk of wires being disconnected due to me pulling wires out) to check for continui...

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Thanks for the reply kbrownie. Sorry my original post was slightly ambiguous. The DIY book doesn't state that you can have multiple sockets on a spur, and I'm only planning on adding one single socket to the porch (double might be excessive for a porch!), but I can see how you read my post that way....

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Hello all. Time to learn some new DIY skills. I need to wire in an internal porch light and reactivate a dead plug socket. Hopefully the good people of this forum can help me do this in a manner which fulfils the associated regulations/standards. As I progress I plan on asking my questions here to k...

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