Adding sockets to a spur?

No. No-one's ever going to come along and plug in four electric fires. But if you're anal, put labels on the four doubles behind the telly: "Max load 3A"

Bill

Well its safe to do that if you include the socket you are tapping into in the fused bit. It might confuse others if the fuse blows but it won't harm anyone unless they plug some life support in. Its almost certainly better than screwing multiway extensions to the wall.

Seconded. If fitting a 13A FCU, you can pretty much do what you like afterwards.

Moral: Always check that what you expect to exist actually does exist.

Is the orginal double socket before or after the new FCU? It should be after and that is fine. Before is technically breaking the regs.

Strictly speaking, no. The FCU should be before the first socket on the spur. But unless you are taking high loads from that first socket, I doubt it much matters.

Yup, you can have as many sockets as you like on a fused spur.

I may have misread that when I made my first reply and assumed the OP was saying that all the sockets are now downstream of the FCU. On rereading, that is not so clear.

So for the avoidance of doubt, the first item on the spur should be the FCU, thence the sockets.

In article , Dave Liquorice writes

It's gone now. I extended the single T&E to the FCU and fitted a double blanking plate.

From the FCU it goes to the four new doubles.

In article , harry writes

That's ok, as I said in the OP, it's all low-power stuff.

I don't see what I have done as being any different to a floating 4-way,

In article , Dave Plowman (News) writes

Should have made that clearer, sorry. Took the original socket out and extended the cable to the FCU.

so it's:

spur cable ---> original socket ---> FCU ---> 4 new sockets. (removed, blanking plate fitted)

In article , John Rumm writes

That's exactly how it is. Thanks.

To solve this problem of having 2 sockets and 3 or 4 items, I bought a 4-way strip with individually-switched sockets. Then I got a bigger TV and had to stretch to reach the main socket. Then I moved the wall sockets and also fitted a double-pole MK 2-gang plate. Then I got a PVR that really shouldn't be switched off, so had to use the other wall socket. Now I do need to fit a flippable cover of some sort over the switch for the PVR to guard against carelessness/drunkeness. BUT - I do have a spare socket in the strip: Yippee!

What you have done is better in the sense that the quality of the sockets is typically much higher!

Well, it's very different, but in a positive way.

MBQ