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Dammit in reply to @Airhead

Well dodgy spur :) Totally the kind of thing that Part P and the regs were designed to put a stop to. Proved to be quite safe over a fair number of years though.

If the cable there is a ring main why not just connect up the socket, does it need re-wiring all the way back to the board?

It's not a ring - wires coming in from the left run back to the CU, exiting to the right go to the various (now removed) sockets and/or appliances.

I'd need to check the other socket in the room, thinking about it that might be where the wires which run to the now-discovered socket have been disconnected.

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Airhead in reply to @Dammit

So the plan is to make it into a ring by connecting the furthest socket on the radial back to the CU?

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Dammit in reply to @Airhead

So the plan is to make it into a ring by connecting the furthest socket on the radial back to the CU?

That would suggest that I'd given this more thought than I actually have.

I'm more concerned with whether I can run the earth wire for the main bonding directly down from the CU inside the wall, and then around the room behind the skirting to the gas and water entry point.

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