Electrics query
Discussion
I am doing soem rennovation work and have bashed away some walls which have plug sockets on them.
Many of the sockets have taken severe damage and are broken - not a problem as they are being replaced and need to be chucked away anyway.
One socket though has totally broken off and the red (old colur) wire is just hanging loose.
In order to make it safe I suppsoe I could just buy another socket.
My understanding is that it is a circuit and the switch of the socket breaks the circuit. Am I right in thinking that
a) if left as it is the circuit may break and other plugs wont work?
b) can I use something like a juction box to repair the break but not necessarily be bothered about having a plug?
I am guessing a junction box is maybe a bit cheaper than a plug socket but more important it will be a bit more robust in the short term.
Do you just conenct all the wires to the same block in the junction box?
Many of the sockets have taken severe damage and are broken - not a problem as they are being replaced and need to be chucked away anyway.
One socket though has totally broken off and the red (old colur) wire is just hanging loose.
In order to make it safe I suppsoe I could just buy another socket.
My understanding is that it is a circuit and the switch of the socket breaks the circuit. Am I right in thinking that
a) if left as it is the circuit may break and other plugs wont work?
b) can I use something like a juction box to repair the break but not necessarily be bothered about having a plug?
I am guessing a junction box is maybe a bit cheaper than a plug socket but more important it will be a bit more robust in the short term.
Do you just conenct all the wires to the same block in the junction box?
Having said that I may just repalce all 4 sockets as others are damaged but not to the same extent and it will work out cheaper to get junction boxes - as I say no need for them to be working sockets as the elctrics will be repalced later.
So just get a junction box and connected all wires of the same colour to each terminal so they are effectivley a joint cable?
So just get a junction box and connected all wires of the same colour to each terminal so they are effectivley a joint cable?
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