Electrical question.

[Taipan]

Just been round my sons flat and can see this open socket behind his fridge freezer. It’s literally above a double socket? Does it look like wiring for something specific or can I just have a single socket put on there?

[Mussels]

It might have been a permanent cable for an appliance and the last occupant just unscrewed and removed the face plate. Did you mean to add a photo?

[Taipan]

It might have been a permanent cable for an appliance and the last occupant just unscrewed and removed the face plate. Did you mean to add a photo?

I did! D'oh! Have added it now...

[Trinity765]

Ooo I love electrical questions.

Can I have your bike?

[Taipan]

Ooo I love electrical questions.

Can I have your bike?

[Yorick]

Ooo I love electrical questions.

Can I have your bike?

Not like you to be funny

[Wscad]

That’s old colours and the current colours. Red & brown are in a common connector block as is black & blue.

I’d take off the cover on the twin socket and see what colour the wiring is

[Bustaspoke]

Hard to tell just from that image,if it's 6mm cable it's probably the supply for a cooker.
I don't think it's from the same supply as the socket as ideally you should have 2 red,2 black & 2 earth wires as it would be part of the ring main,however it could just be spurred of the double socket

[Sunny]

Hard to tell just from that image,if it's 6mm cable it's probably the supply for a cooker.
I don't think it's from the same supply as the socket as ideally you should have 2 red,2 black & 2 earth wires as it would be part of the ring main,however it could just be spurred of the double socket

If it was a spur you'd only have one set of live/neutral/earth wires, not two.

[Sunny]

It might have been a permanent cable for an appliance and the last occupant just unscrewed and removed the face plate.

This gets my vote too. So likely on a separate breaker in your consumer unit/fuse box. Get a tester on it.

I'd stick a socket on it if I lived there.

[The Martian]

Bit of a strange habit you have going to see family and looking down the back of their fridge freezer.
Do you do that wherever you visit?

[Taipan]

It might have been a permanent cable for an appliance and the last occupant just unscrewed and removed the face plate.

This gets my vote too. So likely on a separate breaker in your consumer unit/fuse box. Get a tester on it.

I'd stick a socket on it if I lived there.

We need another socket there, so it would be ideal if we could put one on those wires.

[Taipan]

Bit of a strange habit you have going to see family and looking down the back of their fridge freezer.
Do you do that wherever you visit?

Yup. And loft spaces. I can't help myself. its a curse...

[Count Steer]

It might have been a permanent cable for an appliance and the last occupant just unscrewed and removed the face plate.

This gets my vote too. So likely on a separate breaker in your consumer unit/fuse box. Get a tester on it.

I'd stick a socket on it if I lived there.

We need another socket there, so it would be ideal if we could put one on those wires.

Who is this 'we'?

[Skub]

Bit of a strange habit you have going to see family and looking down the back of their fridge freezer.
Do you do that wherever you visit?

Yup. And loft spaces. I can't help myself. its a curse...

You can tell a lot about a person from looking in their loft.

[Taipan]

This gets my vote too. So likely on a separate breaker in your consumer unit/fuse box. Get a tester on it.

I'd stick a socket on it if I lived there.

We need another socket there, so it would be ideal if we could put one on those wires.

Who is this 'we'?

If I saw I, my boy will say its my responsibility and i'll get the bill!

[Taipan]

Bit of a strange habit you have going to see family and looking down the back of their fridge freezer.
Do you do that wherever you visit?

Yup. And loft spaces. I can't help myself. its a curse...

You can tell a lot about a person from looking in their loft.

You'd soon discover why i'm skint!

[Count Steer]

We need another socket there, so it would be ideal if we could put one on those wires.

Who is this 'we'?

If I saw I, my boy will say its my responsibility and i'll get the bill!

I was thinking more along the lines of he needs another socket in his flat tbh.

[Skub]

Yup. And loft spaces. I can't help myself. its a curse...

You can tell a lot about a person from looking in their loft.

You'd soon discover why i'm skint!

And why there's a UK shortage of certain products.

[Taipan]

Who is this 'we'?

If I saw I, my boy will say its my responsibility and i'll get the bill!

I was thinking more along the lines of he needs another socket in his flat tbh.

He wanted to put a microwave on that side of the kitchen but there's no wall mounted socekts there. So as the fridge/freezer and dishwasher are there I said to him look to see if theres a spare socket behind the fridge/freezer and thats when he said there was wires hanging out of the wall and no spare socket. He was going to plug an 4 way adaptor into the double but i'm not keen on those things and said i'll see if we can change the double socket for a triple one for a tidier job.