In my rental chalet there is a double socket outlet in quite a random place on the one side of the bedroom and it is also half behind a cupboard.
The room have 2 three quarter beds, so ideally I would like to place power sockets closer to the beds for guest convenience.
My first thought was to get a multiplug and mount it against the wall between the 2 beds and just neatly run its extention cable against the wall to the socket. But I know you are not allowed to use cabtire for permanent installations.
So what will the correct, safe and legal way be to do this?
Will it be legal if I run the cabtire in conduit, or will it only be legal if I use surfix?
Some of these multiplugs already come with a length of conduit attached and these days the stuff is mostly sealed units, so I guess it will be ideal if I can use the conduit as is.
Besides the legalities I would steer clear of multiplugs. There appears to be no standard which these devices have to comply with and are probably the cause of many fires.
Rather get a regular plug point and mount it in a surface mount box fed with 2.5 mm twin and earth cable.
If you have to ask for the correct legal way…
Why not get an electrician to do it, especially one that can even update the CoC?
And I mention this, because it is a rental. You definitely don’t want to cut corners in case something goes wrong and the renter decide it is a good time to take legal action.
I’ll definitely get a CoC on it, hence the reason for wanting to do it according to code.
Electrically there is a lot on my property which is not according to code, so I’m ensuring everything I do is done correctly. I also fix things where I can and where it doesn’t cost a arm and a leg.
Eventually I will get the CoC updated or redone, whatever is needed. The current one is not worth the paper it is written on and the sparkie who did it disappeared from the face of the earth.
Sadly this is all too common.
I understand that when your house burns to the ground the insurance assessors do a forensic investigation to establish if it was an electrical fault that caused the fire.