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Sparkles - fused spur advice please

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My rental property has just had its eicr and there's a C3 because a spur has been added onto a spur and it's only used 1.5mm2 cable. Apparently it'll be OK if I add a 13A fused spur where it branches off so the circuit is de-rated to the capacity of the conductor.

It's joined in a surface mounted 2 gang socket so I'm thinking the simplest way may be to replace that with either a single socket and the fused spur or a triple gang box with double socket and spur. But the only thing I can find is cooker sockets which aren't appropriate. Is there anything suitable I could use to do this?


 
Posted : 23/04/2026 1:55 pm
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just remove the spur off the spur?


 
Posted : 23/04/2026 3:22 pm
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Yeah that's plan B but to fully clear it up means removing other surface mount boxes and making good so probably more work doing it that way.


 
Posted : 23/04/2026 4:07 pm
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There is a surface patress that takes two.single gang face plates.

Screwfix 8898J...although appears no stock / discontinued. Maybe available elsewhere

 


 
Posted : 23/04/2026 6:09 pm
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Sparkles - fused spur advice please

Don’t bring me in to it!


 
Posted : 23/04/2026 6:21 pm
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